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Second reference for BRAIN Virus. This video is in English. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnedOWfPKT0
An editor has inserted a "Computer Viruses in Art" section (and commented "Don't touch the article"). Notwithstanding Wikipedia's stated policy that no one person "owns" anything (see WP:OWNER), I'm not at all sure that such a section belongs in a technical article. Per WP:BRD, I reverted the addition and am bringing it here to discuss. What does the community think about this? Thanks, everyone! — UncleBubba ( T @ C ) 12:17, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
It says at the top of the article "Not to be confused with computer worm", and yet it uses the same image (of a computer worm) as the page Computer worm. Isn't this inadequate??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2406:3400:21b:8580:1435:fa34:be42:da1f (talk) 08:03, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
Why is the picture for the BRAIN virus labeled "recognized as the first computer virus" when the article is full of examples of earlier viruses? 168.68.1.127 (talk) 14:34, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
A power virus is defined as a virus that causes a CPU to exceed its thermal design power (TDP), possibly permanently damaging it. But the linked paper uses the terms "power virus" and "stress benchmark" interchangeably: "There have been many industry efforts towards writing power viruses and stress benchmarks. Among them, MPrime [5], CPUburn-in [6], CPUburn [4] are the most popular benchmarks. We first give a brief description of these power viruses and then characterize them based on microarchitecture independent metric."
The authors also measure the power consumption of these benchmarks and their own power virus on an AMD Phenom II X4 (K10) Processor Model 945 system, with the power consumption ranging from 48.7 W to 72.5 Watts. However, the TDP of the Phenom II X4 945 is 95 W (parts HDX945WFK4DGI, HDX945WFK4DGM) or 125 W (part HDX945FBK4DGI), meaning this power consumption is within spec.
As such, I think this section should be deleted unless examples of real power viruses capable of exceeding a CPU's TDP have been documented "in-the-wild". 85.48.66.168 (talk) 05:31, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
The redirect Virus (computing has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 February 13 § Virus (computing until a consensus is reached. Utopes (talk / cont) 22:14, 13 February 2024 (UTC)