Re: Restraining yourself from answerwing some questions?
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Originally Posted by dglienna
I don't help people usually that want to rename everything or copy everything.
Really? All these processes are very *standard* installation and deployment use-cases.
I see no point in denying help to someone on these grounds - save for cases when one doesn't know the topic well enough to contribute.
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Originally Posted by dglienna
Too easy to modify.
And? What's the problem with that?
Anyone who has the expertise in writing trojan horses and viruses would be the last one in need of help towards renaming files or deleting them - these wont present any hurdle to such a person.
Re: Restraining yourself from answerwing some questions?
If it sounds like it may be used for malicious purposes, I usually choose to ignore the question.
I myself have created a worm using C# but its an extremely simple worm that anyone with a moderate understanding of programming C# (or C++) could do. I wont explain how I did it due to its nature and I dont want someone unleashing it on someone else but its pretty easy. I mostly just wanted to see if it could be done.
Point being, if someone wants to create a virus, theyll eventually figure out how, or give up. Either way I wouldnt even humor them with an answer.
Re: Restraining yourself from answerwing some questions?
Well, I've only seen one actual post where someone wanted to delete all the files on his friends computer 'as a joke'. He caught some grief.
I assume most people wouldn't be that obvious.
If it's not logical, (even with an explanation), then I won't help.
Re: Restraining yourself from answerwing some questions?
Joining what exterminator said, the knowledge about worms, trojan and spyware function is very useful to protect yourself against them.
Really, non-programmer people tend to have no clue at security risks, and don't see where the "holes" are. Consequently, they're first choice victims of trojans (they execute everything) and worms (they use an admin account for everything, and don't see where processes boundaries are, and where scripts are executed).
As exterminator said, knowing how AIDS spread is rarely used to spread it. It's used to prevent its spread.
Most worms and trojans are written by professional people, to spread rootkits or spywares.
Those people don't ask questions on codeguru (I think).
The time where young people who wanted to "break the system", without financial benefit, were writing a virus, is ended. Or, at least, they form less than a few percents of malwares.
Re: Restraining yourself from answerwing some questions?
Isnt it possible to fill a harddrive using a worm? That was the whole idea behind mine, I wanted to see what would happen and how it would happen and I was rather spooked by the results of my own creation.
I did the calculations and found that every second it was filling up roughly 65 MB of harddrive space. That means it could easily fill my 80 GB drive in about 21 minutes >.<
