Talk:Jerusalem (computer virus)

Shannip (talk) 16:04, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 16 January 2019 and 22 May 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Shannip.

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Article Editing for Class Project
I just wanted to give a heads-up that I'll be making some wide-range edits to this article within the next few weeks. I'm dedicating a course project solely to researching and writing on this topic. Will be adding sources, information, and grammatical corrections. Shannip (talk) 17:25, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Terminate and stay resident
I do not believe that the Jerusalem virus used the DOS "Terminate and stay resident" system call, but that it instead relied on trapping interrupts to stay memory resident. I have therefore removed the phrase "as a terminate and stay resident program". In general, viruses using the DOS TSR call were rare. 193.216.223.188 00:52, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Interrupts?
"since the advent of Windows, interrupts are no longer used"

I don't think this is true. 69.87.200.97 01:09, 17 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm pretty sure interrupts are still used; however the specific DOS function cited isn't, which is what makes this virus & its variants obselete. I changed a couple of words to reflect this. Rockdozen 19:24, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Tenses?
Most of this article is in present tense, with some confusing exceptions (i.e., "the Jerusalem virus becomes memory resident and would then infect every executable file run"). I copy-edited to make it consistently present tense, but since this is an obsolete virus should the whole thing be in past tense? Rockdozen 19:55, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

the last day Palestine existed as a country
How is that sentence there? It is false and is based on some loosely reliable source. Since politics are sensitive matters, I will leave it to others to deal with it Snfdfk (talk) 14:10, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I added "apparently" to the beginning of the sentence so that it is more doubtful, hope it could solve the problem. - ias postb□x 05:51, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you, but I'm not sure that is enough. It smells like modern day anti-history (play on ant-vax) shenanigans, since there wasn't a country in the region, but a turkish rule followed by a british mandate, as is well known. The fact is it's a day marked as "Naqba" by arabs of the region, refering to the war and displacement rather than the new claim of statehood. Snfdfk (talk) 09:39, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Merge proposal
I propose merging Sunday_(computer_virus) and Westwood_(computer_virus) into Jerusalem_(computer_virus). Sunday and Westwood are already covered in the main article. There is unlikely to be any additional information that requires them to be split out again. --HamburgerRadio (talk) 04:14, 20 June 2024 (UTC)