"PC Gaming Puts Other Platforms to Shame in GAMES, RESPECT, and DEALS"

[vlad321]

Antabus said:

vlad321 said:

Even better, I've actually had to write a virus program for a class a few semesters back, if I find it I could just send it to you if you want. Obviously you shouldn't run it.

No, that is not better. Anyone can compile a program (or send a random executable) but I would like to see you reverse-engineer  a binary and analyze it in "5 minutes".

See that's the thing though now we're comparing oranges to apples. You really don't need to reverse engineer the entire thing to know it's a virus. Viruses have other signatures which you can follow to identify. They either have a purpose, such as information mining, or are there to for the sake of causing harm to your computer. The ones that are made to cause harm for harm's sake are pretty easy to identify since they make themselves known. The hardest ones to catch are botnet files, but even those are not so hard to identify if you look at your network log. Keyloggers are also pisspoor at hiding within processes, and they also have to have a network connection to send their data unless someone has physical access to your PC (then youa re fucked no matter what you do but whatever).

Since I'm not about to start looking at hex jsut cause some faceless person on the internet dared me to, I am going to assuem that you also know that to detect viruses youreally don't have to detect the actual file, just detect their signature, and it is really not that hard to spend 10-15 minutes a week to scan a few lines of logs. There is a reason why a botnet ctonroller for a botnet installed in the Intel labs costs $3mil.