Timeline of computer viruses and worms

Timeline of computer viruses and worms - computer malware timeline. Article "Timeline of computer viruses and worms" in English Wikipedia has 75.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 116 references and 55 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In June 2025 the article "Timeline of computer viruses and worms" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Timeline of computer viruses and worms", its content was written by 572 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 686 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 181 times in English Wikipedia and cited 419 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2464 in February 2004
• Global: #11056 in February 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5460 in January 2009
• Global: #13086 in January 2009

There are 9 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Timeline of computer viruses and worms		75.2903
2	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Hronologija kompjuterskih virusa i crva		55.9621
3	Finnish (fi) Aikajana merkittävistä tietokoneviruksista ja madoista		52.9106
4	Japanese (ja) コンピュータウイルスとワームの年表		37.1755
5	Persian (fa) جدول زمانی ویروس‌ها و کرم‌های رایانه‌ای		33.2197
6	Malay (ms) Garis masa virus komputer dan cecacing yang terkenal		32.4466
7	Ukrainian (uk) Хронологія комп'ютерних вірусів та хробаків		27.1829
8	Arabic (ar) خط زمني لفيروسات وديدان الحاسوب		24.1379
9	Chinese (zh) 知名病毒及蠕蟲的歷史年表		15.9845

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Timeline of computer viruses and worms" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Timeline of computer viruses and worms		3 469 471
2	Chinese (zh) 知名病毒及蠕蟲的歷史年表		138 301
3	Japanese (ja) コンピュータウイルスとワームの年表		74 279
4	Finnish (fi) Aikajana merkittävistä tietokoneviruksista ja madoista		16 361
5	Ukrainian (uk) Хронологія комп'ютерних вірусів та хробаків		15 841
6	Malay (ms) Garis masa virus komputer dan cecacing yang terkenal		7 454
7	Persian (fa) جدول زمانی ویروس‌ها و کرم‌های رایانه‌ای		5 980
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Hronologija kompjuterskih virusa i crva		5 481
9	Arabic (ar) خط زمني لفيروسات وديدان الحاسوب		2 639

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Timeline of computer viruses and worms" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Timeline of computer viruses and worms		6 195
2	Chinese (zh) 知名病毒及蠕蟲的歷史年表		425
3	Japanese (ja) コンピュータウイルスとワームの年表		305
4	Finnish (fi) Aikajana merkittävistä tietokoneviruksista ja madoista		60
5	Persian (fa) جدول زمانی ویروس‌ها و کرم‌های رایانه‌ای		44
6	Arabic (ar) خط زمني لفيروسات وديدان الحاسوب		42
7	Ukrainian (uk) Хронологія комп'ютерних вірусів та хробаків		23
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Hronologija kompjuterskih virusa i crva		10
9	Malay (ms) Garis masa virus komputer dan cecacing yang terkenal		9

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Timeline of computer viruses and worms" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Timeline of computer viruses and worms		572
2	Chinese (zh) 知名病毒及蠕蟲的歷史年表		38
3	Japanese (ja) コンピュータウイルスとワームの年表		24
4	Finnish (fi) Aikajana merkittävistä tietokoneviruksista ja madoista		20
5	Ukrainian (uk) Хронологія комп'ютерних вірусів та хробаків		13
6	Persian (fa) جدول زمانی ویروس‌ها و کرم‌های رایانه‌ای		8
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Hronologija kompjuterskih virusa i crva		6
8	Arabic (ar) خط زمني لفيروسات وديدان الحاسوب		3
9	Malay (ms) Garis masa virus komputer dan cecacing yang terkenal		2

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Timeline of computer viruses and worms" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Timeline of computer viruses and worms		1
2	Arabic (ar) خط زمني لفيروسات وديدان الحاسوب		0
3	Persian (fa) جدول زمانی ویروس‌ها و کرم‌های رایانه‌ای		0
4	Finnish (fi) Aikajana merkittävistä tietokoneviruksista ja madoista		0
5	Japanese (ja) コンピュータウイルスとワームの年表		0
6	Malay (ms) Garis masa virus komputer dan cecacing yang terkenal		0
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Hronologija kompjuterskih virusa i crva		0
8	Ukrainian (uk) Хронологія комп'ютерних вірусів та хробаків		0
9	Chinese (zh) 知名病毒及蠕蟲的歷史年表		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Timeline of computer viruses and worms" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Timeline of computer viruses and worms		181
2	Finnish (fi) Aikajana merkittävistä tietokoneviruksista ja madoista		89
3	Ukrainian (uk) Хронологія комп'ютерних вірусів та хробаків		50
4	Chinese (zh) 知名病毒及蠕蟲的歷史年表		35
5	Japanese (ja) コンピュータウイルスとワームの年表		31
6	Arabic (ar) خط زمني لفيروسات وديدان الحاسوب		20
7	Persian (fa) جدول زمانی ویروس‌ها و کرم‌های رایانه‌ای		8
8	Malay (ms) Garis masa virus komputer dan cecacing yang terkenal		3
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Hronologija kompjuterskih virusa i crva		2

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic خط زمني لفيروسات وديدان الحاسوب
en	English Timeline of computer viruses and worms
fa	Persian جدول زمانی ویروس‌ها و کرم‌های رایانه‌ای
fi	Finnish Aikajana merkittävistä tietokoneviruksista ja madoista
ja	Japanese コンピュータウイルスとワームの年表
ms	Malay Garis masa virus komputer dan cecacing yang terkenal
sh	Serbo-Croatian Hronologija kompjuterskih virusa i crva
uk	Ukrainian Хронологія комп'ютерних вірусів та хробаків
zh	Chinese 知名病毒及蠕蟲的歷史年表

Best Rank

English: #5460 01.2009

Global: #13086 01.2009

Best Rank

English: #2464 02.2004

Global: #11056 02.2004

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