Talk:Emcodec

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History

This article was originally created by myself, the [User:Sloth monkey|sloth monkey], (14:48, 13 July 2006) under the article named "Media Codec". This is simply because I encountered the trojan myself (under the names zipcodec and media codec) and decided to check Wiki for any information on the fishy-looking devils. Lo and behold, there was nothing to be found in the entire universe of Wikipedia. But there was info on it available from Symantec (I use Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition).

After I wrote it, some others helped to improve the article, but more than anyone it seems AxelBoldt did some good work to improve things (01:10, 12 August 2006 to 18:20, 18 September 2006). So thanks for that, buddy.

Then on September 19, 2006, I created this article (Trojan.Emcodec.E) and redirected the Media Codec article.

There now you know the history of things. As if you cared. sloth_monkey 10:32, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

If anyone else finds additional info or especially different names that this thing goes by, please contribute by listing it here and also creating a new article for the varient, redirecting it to Trojan.Emcodec.E. Thanks.

On a completely unrelated note, I wrote most of the article on Robert Kiyosaki and so I obviously feel the man's worth listening to. Please read the article if you feel so inclined. sloth_monkey 10:32, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pcodec should redirect to a different page (that doesn't exist yet)

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest was declined.

What I think should be changed (include citations):
- There should be a new page "Pcodec" that relates to the 2023-present codec for numerical data.
- There should also be a disambiguous page for Pcodec that points to the 2003-present codec for numerical data and the 2005-era Emcodec trojan horse
- "Pcodec" should direct to the present-day codec by default.

Why it should be changed:
- The codec for numerical data is more relevant in present-day.
- Emcodec's primary alias was not Pcodec.
- The present-day Pcodec stores petabytes of data in Zarr, CnosDB, and LocustDB, so I think a page is warranted.
- Mostly, it seems improper to redirect "Pcodec" to a page about a historical trojan horse when there is a legitimate codec by the same name used in industry.

COI Context:
- I helped develop (the present-day) Pcodec.
- I don't have any kind of financial incentive.

Scenichill (talk) 01:29, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

Not done: Hi, thanks for your request. Could you kindly draft such a page and submit it through Articles for Creation? PK650 (talk) 19:25, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]