Talk:Comparison of computer viruses

message: 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[].
*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  After all, the Probert Encyclopedia has left us with a fascinating and wonderful but dreadfully outdated list of DOS minutia virus.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 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?  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)
thread_title:  Organisation 

message: 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)
thread_title:  trojans 

message: Viruses should also be sorted by OS IMO.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.227.53.176 (talk) 16:45, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Viruses aint universal! 

message: 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)
thread_title: protection policy

message: So why isn't Wiper/SkyWiper/Flame on here?--SmartyPantsKid (talk) 14:48, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know what the inclusion criteria are. Here are a couple of refs which may be of some use. If appropriate, they could possibly be included in the table. -- Trevj (talk) 10:46, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  not here 

message: I think the article should include Java update virus in the list of viruses. Blackbombchu (talk) 20:07, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  New recent very powerful virus 

message: 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)
thread_title:  there's another virus out there 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Switched tabs? 

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