Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SpywareStrike

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 07:08, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SpywareStrike

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No indication of notability, just another random bit of irritating code. Nothing on Google news, plenty of sources that verify its existance but that's it. brenneman 22:56, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

• Keep or merge with SpyAxe (because they're very similar). Wikipedia has lots of pages containing information about spywares,malwares and viruses and in my opinion this article is in good condition.By the way it has 159.000 hits on Google [1]as "SpywareStrike" and 42.600 hits as "Spyware Strike"[2],so I can say that it is notable enough. Bugtrio | Talk 23:40, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep 168K google hits and the information in the article is very useful. It appears to be a significant and notable piece of malware. Tarinth 17:18, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
• As nicely as possible, in the opinions expressed above there is a claim to notability without any supporting evidence other than "hits." In particular "a topic is notable if it has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works," and all of the listings I have seen have clearly been "trivial." Do we have, for example, an article in Wired talking about this particular bit of code, telling us why it's more important than some others? - brenneman 23:40, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

I would argue that software products (i.e., virus/malware-removal products) and their associated websites qualify as "published works," and that since SpywareStrike is a significant piece of malware that is featured (and neutralized by) those products/websites, that it meets the standard you are proposing. Some of the malware-removal products that include removal of SpywareStrike include major products with millions of users. Tarinth 13:22, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.