[Possibility of harmful programs]

barneyoncrack · **Posted:** Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:23 pm

I made a program called cd-tray opener. you just click on it then a window pops up and you press 2 buttons one either to open the Cd-Rom or to close it. If you want it, then I can send you...
Wink

No harmful code there... Exclamation

DIIST · **Posted:** Sat Dec 10, 2005 8:43 pm

barneyoncrack wrote:

I made a program called cd-tray opener. you just click on it then a window pops up and you press 2 buttons one either to open the Cd-Rom or to close it.

Is that even possible in Turing? Confused

[Gandalf] · **Posted:** Sat Dec 10, 2005 8:51 pm

I'm sure using the system() method you might be able to do something like that...

do_pete · **Posted:** Sat Dec 10, 2005 10:54 pm

I believe there is a program, eject.exe or something like that, in the WINDOWS folder that opens the CD drive

do_pete · **Posted:** Wed Dec 21, 2005 7:57 pm

I found it. On my computer it's in C:/SYSINFO/CDOPEN.exe

codemage · **Posted:** Thu Dec 22, 2005 12:15 pm

...and it wasn't written by barneyoncrack. Wink

Unisyst · **Posted:** Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:16 pm

Viper wrote:

it would be nice if there was a virius program that could catch and kill all virisus

You mean an antivirus program?

Online virus scanner

[Gandalf] · **Posted:** Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:17 pm

Unisyst wrote:

Viper wrote:

it would be nice if there was a virius program that could catch and kill all virisus

You mean an antivirus program?

Online virus scanner

No. All viruses.

Unisyst · **Posted:** Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:22 pm

That's sort of the point of a Virus Scanner. It updates for all new viruses.

[Gandalf] · **Posted:** Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:27 pm

I'm afraid you're sadly mistaken. A virus scanner only updates for and detects the most widely spread viruses that have been detected. This definately does not cover everything.

Unisyst · **Posted:** Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:38 pm

A virus scanner detects malicious code. If there is something dangerous is found, it is updated. This does not include exploits, however. If it is not dangerous it's not much of a 'virus'.

md · **Posted:** Thu Dec 22, 2005 2:11 pm

Virus scanners only detect the most common viruses; there are many many viruses which are not as wide spread which will not be detected; as well as many old viruses that are no longer checked for (by old I mean 10+ years old.

codemage · **Posted:** Thu Dec 22, 2005 2:20 pm

A lot of viruses are caught by checking for generic virus schemes. Many older viruses are nabbed by these schemes, so they don't need to be checked for individually.

Small-scale viruses (ie if you made one just to distrbute to 'friends') are too localized to catch.

MysticVegeta · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2006 6:36 pm

If they are too localized to get caught, chances are they arent that harmful Wink

md · **Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:06 am

Not nessessarily; a slow spreading virus could easily pass under the radar. At least for a while. The thing is that most virii these days are designed to spread as fast as possible, which makes them rather obvious. These are clearly not very well designed virii. A good virus would be slow and not affect system performance at all. Afterall if your virus is detected and deleted it can no longer work. If it goes unoticed for a year and then does whatever you want it's muc hmore effective.

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