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I removed the redirect to Talk:Timeline of notable computer viruses and worms. I'm not quite sure why it was there in the first place?

In any case, I have a few suggestions to make. Bear with me, as they may be excessively technical, but it's 3 AM and I'm not terribly coherent.

• I think we're working with too much information here. All of this information will not fit on one page. I think a name, a discovery date (year if necessary), a subtype, some WildList reference, and notes would be sufficient. Information like author, point of isolation, etc. consumes too much space and is kind of trivial. No reason not to leave that information to its own page.
• Instead of alphabetically, it might be better to sort by virus type. That way, we don't have to worry about those prefixes that were never standardised. I would suggest these categories: Windows file, Email, Macro, DOS file, boot, Mobile OS (PalmOS+mobile phones - whatever), and Other. I'm not entirely sure what to do about multipartite viruses - any ideas there? (By the way, it might be a good idea to get a categorisation system down before anything too major is done).
• I'm looking down the current list, and there's already misinformation. I am reasonably sure that A and A does not infect under Win9x. Only a few DOS file infectors, such as Cascade, do this. This has never been well-documented, and the primary OS (e.g. DOS in the case of A and A) should be good for now. I'm not sure we need to list every operating system a virus can run on. This gets us into dangerous waters[[1]].
• I'd like to see some way of rating how common a virus is. After all, the Probert Encyclopedia has left us with a fascinating and wonderful but dreadfully outdated list of DOS minutia virus. When's the last time any of us have had an outbreak of Scott's Valley? Some use of the WildList[2] might be in order.
• A bot would rock, although I have no idea how they work. Especially with those boring DOS file infectors. There are, what, 10,000 of those?
• Should we attempt to follow naming conventions[3]? Obviously, in cases like Jerusalem (violates the geographic rule), it's impossible to, but overall I'd like to see the DOS viruses use the "must" rules as much as possible (although cases like AGI-Plan, violating the company name rule, may be a lost cause).
• I would like to see this list made into one page making it search able using Ctrl F for fast virus checks.

Sorry if my comment breaks style guidelines. I'm still getting used to this. I look forward on expanding this project. --Trafton 10:50, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

copied from the trojan list. This is a list of Trojan horse computer viruses.

• Bandook
• Beast Trojan
• Bifrost
• Zlob
• Bohmini.A
• Frodo — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.168.245.167 (talk) 08:50, 23 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Graybird
• Insurrection
• Koobface
• mebroot
• Micro Bill Systems
• Mocmex
• Nuclear RAT
• Optix Pro
• Storm Trojan
• Sub7
• ProRat
• Trojan.Vundo
• YouAreAnIdiot — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iswearimacrow2 (talk • contribs) 22:13, 4 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Trojan virtumonde
• Trojan.Zonebac

== See also ==

• List of computer viruses
• Remote administration tool

==External links==

• Snopes — Compilation of viruses, worms, and trojan horses.

Get 'em while they're hot folks - they're goin' fast. Of course maybe this section's on the way out the door too, don't know. Feel free to sort, categorize, research, or whatever at your own pleasure (or dis-pleasure). ;) — Ched (talk) 19:45, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Viruses should also be sorted by OS IMO. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.227.53.176 (talk) 16:45, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

the vandalism count on the article is too high and an protection policy might fix this problem. i recommend a semi protected policy for this. Abc123456person (talk) 19:23, 4 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have a particular interest in computer viruses and Trojans and will seek to update the information contained within this section. Hopefully if this page is given a bit of love and attention, it can become more comprehensive and complete.

I will research into the possibility of creating a bot, however in truth this is currently beyond my capabilities (if only I could write it in C++). Something for the future perhaps...

Peace guys. If I do manage to make any mistakes, please let me know and I will be happy to correct them. Just be gentle, everyone was a newbie once  ;)

SirkusSystems (talk) 04:35, 9 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

== Merger proposal ==

I propose that List of computer viruses (Numeric), List of computer viruses (A-D), List of computer viruses (E-K), List of computer viruses (L-R) and List of computer viruses (S-Z) all be merged into List of computer viruses.

After the removal of redlink viruses from these lists, the remaining list is so short that I believe it would be best to combine these articles in one list.

This list is also subject to becoming even smaller, as I have requested that certain virus articles be merged if the viruses listed are merely variants of one another.

I also believe that this will help prevent further duplication of work in the future. If this was not done then if a virus is added to the List of computer viruses, it would then also have to be added to the List of computer viruses (x-x) page as well. Not only is this duplicating work but could also lead to inconsistencies if this accidentally not done on both lists.

I have presented a mock-up of how this would appear on my sandbox.

Any feedback is greatly appriciated.

Many thanks

Sirkus (talk) 05:55, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

So why isn't Wiper/SkyWiper/Flame on here?--SmartyPantsKid (talk) 14:48, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what the inclusion criteria are. Here are a couple of refs which may be of some use.[4][5] If appropriate, they could possibly be included in the table. -- Trevj (talk) 10:46, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think the article should include Java update virus in the list of viruses. Blackbombchu (talk) 20:07, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

the youareanidiot virus. its available on windows. (i dont know about macs) but what it does is displays three smiley faces and says over it: you are an idiot. to stop this virus in windows 7, right click and click "loop" on the menu but that will give you errors. if you don't loop, you'll get a BSOD. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NylonKittyJr (talk • contribs) 14:49, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The content in the tabs for "Isolation Date" seems to be in the "Isolation" tab, and i'm not sure what is meant by "Isolation" at all here, in any case, i don't know how to fix it (if it's actually broken), but i wanted to make a note of it for those who are a bit more experienced. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Swedra (talk • contribs) 17:34, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

the table got all sorts of messed up because someone deleted the "subtype" tab, and subsequent attempts at fixes worked with what was there, rather than repairing what was not. i've restored it (i think) to former glory. k kisses 18:24, 4 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Someone could put this virus in the article? 167.250.71.36 (talk) 16:22, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]