Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Malware

MalwareProject template

I thought project tags ({{MalwareProject}}) went on an article's talk page, not the article itself. -- rebug (talk) 01:08, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Yup, project notices are supposed to go to the talk page. I moved them all. (at least based on whatlinkshere to the template.) --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 18:03, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

New Member

Hi, only been with wikipedia a few weeks and when I saw this project I thought I'd join since most of the time I'm on DALnet, malware is a big problem for most of the people that come into the channels I'm on (tech support). Just a few suggestions/ideas/questions...

1. I notice that some of the virus articles use the {{Computer virus}} template. Couldn't all malware articles use a variation of this box (Viruses, Trojans, Spyware, Adware, Dialers, etc)? Also, could some malware fall into more than one category - e.g. PSGuard?
2. Should a Category:List of rogue antispyware, Category:List of suspect antispyware, or something similar be created? Or would it all come under Category:Spyware?

   • Is article Spyware going to fall under this WikiProject in the long-term as well?

3. Regarding links to sites that ARE the author's (and the site contains code that might be downloaded automatically without the user's permission), is there a standardised way of warning the user? For example: Clicking on this link will take you to a site that might contain malware. Malware can be downloaded to your computer without your knowledge. (or something to that effect)
4. Screenshots of adware (or any other malware that is visible). Are there any anti-virus/anti-spyware/anti-malware sites out there that have images that are able to be used? (I'm a bit cloudy on the free use and copyright things - if someone can explain it clearer to me I'm all ears :D). If not, are we going to describe what appears on the screen of an infected computer rather than possibly infecting our own machine trying to get a screenshot?
5. Regarding External links (which I've noticed are often marked as advertising), how MANY soloutions should be given? Maybe a See also section linking to Anti-virus#List_of_antivirus_software_and_companies (or maybe Anti-virus#Freeware instead?), Spyware#Remedies_and_prevention, and maybe also a link to Category:Spyware removal (obviously not putting the article into the category! ;)), and maybe External links to 2 automatic removal tools and 2 manual removal articles?

   • I'm going to start work on SpyAxe (using a Userpage sandbox at User:TheJC/Malware/Spyaxe). Once I've done that, I'll either carry on with articles in the Spyware category, or create Brontok (computer worm).

6. Where are the templates for this project?

   • Hope this isn't too long :) TheJC ^Talk_{Contributions} 21:30, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

7. You will find this list of Malware domains useful Project Honeypot Spam Domains List Igor Berger (talk) 23:09, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 00:04, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Spyware

Spyware is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy (Talk) 21:16, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 17:48, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Proposed deletions (WP:PROD)

• 13 September 2007 - expires 18 September
  • SpyHeal (PROD by User:B. Wolterding; "SpywareHeal is a rogue anti-spyware program.") --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 21:03, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Storm botnet up for GA review

Hi guys, Storm botnet is now up for GA review. If you could lend a hand cleaning/expanding etc. it would be great. Thanks! • Lawrence Cohen 15:07, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Hello, just want to say hello :) qpwoencheydebey

Project Page Layout?

just a suggestion, why don't we try to put the {{subst:WikiProject|Name of project}} template or rather organize the page a bit? Neffyring (talk) 12:54, 14 June 2008 (UTC)neffyring

WikiProject:Software

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A discussion

An important discussion on " Should WikiProjects get prior approval of other WikiProjects (Descendant or Related or any ) to tag articles that overlaps their scope ? " is open here . We welcome you to participate and give your valuable opinions. -- TinuCherian ^{(Wanna Talk?)} - , member of WikiProject Council. 15:01, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

I think this WikiProject (WikiProject Malware) should be brought under the management of WikiProject Software for the survival of this project. There is an open discussion on the WikiProject Software talk page. We welcome you to participate and give your valuable opinions. -- Tyw7, formerly Troop350 (Talk ● Contributions) 10:36, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank You, I will visit both these pages for discussion Sephiroth storm (talk) 18:55, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Announcement

As of today, WikiProject Malware is a descendant wikiproject of WikiProject: Computing. Articles may use the tag: {{WikiProject Computing|malware=yes|malware-importance=}} Sephiroth storm (talk) 13:58, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

I have also created WP 1.0 Assessment category tree for WP:Malware with TinucherianBot -- Tinu Cherian - 12:15, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

If some body can identify the categories of this project , the articles can be autotagged by TinucherianBot -- Tinu Cherian - 12:17, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Forgive my inexperience, What do you mean as far as categories? If you mean the categories at the bottom of the pages, I will include a list of those I can find. Can you help make the project page and talk page more orginized? With the nice flashy stuff like on WP:ComputingSephiroth storm (talk) 13:05, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Categories

Rogue software
Spyware
Adware
Malware
Internet advertising and promotion (only some articles)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Malware

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Userbox template needs to be renamed

I suggest renaming the Userbox template. The current name 'WikiProject Malware' is the one that should be used for the main template. The userbox should be named 'WikiProject Malware/Userbox', just like Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/Userbox --DanielPharos (talk) 18:45, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

I don't mind, however, I'm not familiar with making or editing userboxes. If you can do so, please do and provide us with the new tag. Sephiroth storm (talk) 03:10, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

OK, done. I've also made a request to move the Template:MalwareProject to the now 'free' Template:WikiProject Malware. --DanielPharos (talk) 11:49, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Possibly non-notable article

I just found a possibly unnotable article: Talk:Stand alone viruses Someone with full knowledge of things should take a closer look at it. --DanielPharos (talk) 18:12, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Ok, this article seems completly unnessesary, i'm nominating it for Speedy Deletion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sephiroth storm (talk • contribs) 19:47, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks --DanielPharos (talk) 23:33, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

NP. looks like its been taken care of. Sephiroth storm (talk) 03:30, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Boot viruses don't need DOS

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Category:Boot viruses is currently under Category:DOS viruses. Aren't boot viruses fundamentally more or less platform independant? I mean, they hijack the boot sector; that doesn't necessarily mean that DOS must be installed on that system. (Even better, there are some Windows boot viruses named in there: Crazy Boot (computer virus) for example.) Also, if that's changed, that would make the Category:DOS viruses and Category:DOS file viruses the same: the latter should be merged into the former. --DanielPharos (talk) 15:01, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Problem with quality/importance category

There appears to be a naming-issue with the Unassessed category: Template:WikiProject Malware. It seems the current name of the category includes the word 'Class', and the template doesn't like that. I'm not sure how to proceed to rectify this... --DanielPharos (talk) 19:49, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

I am familiar with the class and importance tags on the template, but im not sure if the class is showing on the templates. Sephiroth storm (talk) 17:59, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Unaccessable article

I just found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Onlinestability.com+Trojan&fulltext=Search I can't open the article; a 500-internal server error pops up. It's probably due to a bad URL (the dot com in the article name). Can somebody take a look at this, or poke an admin to fix this? --DanielPharos (talk) 13:01, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Never mind, it suddenly corrected itself... --DanielPharos (talk) 13:03, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

New icon

I made a new icon; please tell me if you like it. (I probably should have opened a discussion about this first. Damn spur-of-the-moments!) --DanielPharos (talk) 16:37, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Where is it? Sephiroth storm (talk) 18:52, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Here: Image:Malware logo.png. It's the one used in the templates. --DanielPharos (talk) 12:31, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Unnecessary disambiguations

Just wondering why the project specifically calls for article titles to be disambiguated when there is no other article with which our readers could get confused. Why Sobig (computer worm) instead of just "Sobig"? Sobig just redirects there anyway, so why not have the article there? Disambiguation is generally only to be used when there is a conflict in article titles, which doesn't seem to be the case with some of our virus and worm articles, yet they are disambiguated anyway. Is there any compelling rationale not to move these articles over the un-disambiguated redirects? Ford MF (talk) 17:35, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

This policy was in place when I came on board, unless there is a real need for a change, I see little need for a change, it could indeed prevent future problems, if there becomes anouther article that needs to be Sobig whatever. Sephiroth storm (talk) 19:19, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

I don't see "it was like this when I got here" as being a particularly strong rationale to ignore our style guidelines. Ford MF (talk) 19:22, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Second Try at a Revive

Hello All,

I don't know if anyone has a problem with this .. but I'd like to 'revive' this project, as it seems to be dead. If anyone has any objections, please feel free to make them clear to me while I try to update the WikiProject page, and the various articles underneath our project.

Please help out where you can .. malware is a very important topic and field within computing!

Kind Regards, blurpeace ^{(talk - contributions)} 01:10, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

My First Step

As it seems, this Project Page is a little drab, and could use a little sprucing up.

I have decided to start recreating the page on the Sandbox page (that I have also started). You will see my development there if you are interested.

Kind Regards, blurpeace ^{(talk - contributions)} 23:25, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

See Information on Merge HERE

See information on the proposed merge located HERE.

The future of WikiProject Malware and the Computer and Information Security Task force

In case you've missed it so far, I'd like to note that there's discussion of the future of both WikiProjects at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computing/Computer and Information Security task force. --h2g2bob (talk) 01:30, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

AFD nomination of Jeefo (computer virus)

I have recently nominated the article Jeefo (computer virus) for deletion. If anyone wants to contribute to the discussion, please do so. The discussion can be found here :[1]. Thanks for reading. Terrakyte (talk) 03:46, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

How to Join

Hello everyone.

I'm interested in malware and removal techniques and I was in a malware removal training program in a reputable security forum (I didn't make it, though). How do I join this WikiProject?

Securityadvisor - Talk | Contribs 02:03, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank You for your interest in WikiProject Malware! I must inform you however, that WikiProject Malware is now under the imperium of WikiProject Computer Security. All Malware articles are currently being transfered over to the new project. In any case, we welcome you to join us at WikiProject Computer Security! Sephiroth storm (talk) 22:23, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

How do I join the new WikiProject? - Securityadvisor - Talk | Contribs 00:20, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

You have to be able to crack the secret password ...:~) I'm kidding of course. I did see a list here that you could add your name to. For the most part though, I thinks it's mostly about editing articles that interest you. (Come to think of it, I don't think I saw my name there). I'm sure there's a related userbox somewhere too ... I'll see if I can find it for ya. Welcome by the way. (although I'm not anyone from here officially). Ched (talk) 00:54, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

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FYI. 14:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

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Expert attention

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