anti-virus software...

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Sep 9 2006, 4:33 am
I've been thinking about making my own anti-virus software for awhile now and now that i want to start it i have no idea how to if anyone can give me some tips on stuff that should be in anti-virus software or any coding language i should use(free) or any codes that might be useful that would be greatly appreaiated
Sep 9 2006, 4:43 am
Don't bother making a standard anti-virus program; that's just boring and you don't have access to the thousands of virus databases like all the big corporations do.

What you should do is not use C++ or whatever; use DM. Go on. Make a BYOND-based anti-virus program. >=D I challenge you!
Sep 9 2006, 4:47 am
In response to Elation
how exactly would i do that
Sep 9 2006, 5:51 am
In response to Elation
I doubt that's possible
Sep 9 2006, 2:59 pm
In response to SSJ-Chao
you could not do that...they would have to browse the web striegt from DS and that would be a problem
Sep 9 2006, 3:21 pm
In response to Elation
Elation wrote:
Don't bother making a standard anti-virus program; that's just boring and you don't have access to the thousands of virus databases like all the big corporations do.

What you should do is not use C++ or whatever; use DM. Go on. Make a BYOND-based anti-virus program. >=D I challenge you!

That’s so old, It's been done already by me. Let’s just say Safe-mode is a pain :P. I dropped the project and was thinking of trying again with 4.0.

Some Issues that need to be worked around were:

1. Byond's limit on file size when doing a txt2file.
-MD5 lookup works but it is not the most effective method to detect malware. forget about Proactive Detection without some outside code.

2. Safe-more, and super-safe mode.
-The user needs to turn on trusted mode

Really it would be better to make a shell in byond for clamav, it could then be used as a file passer in byond games, and in hosting :P.