[extropy-chat] [comp] Protect an exe?

[Mike Lorrey]

Well, yahoo scans my attachments (both uploading and dowloading), so I
don't worry about that these days. Why doesn't your office run
anti-virus software?

--- Emlyn O'regan <oregan.emlyn at healthsolve.com.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I thought I'd ask a technical question of all you software-literate
> extros
> out there.
> 
> I've put an executable together for promoting my wife's opera via the
> office
> e-mail joke network; it's got dancing teapots, a little game, music
> samples,
> etc.
> 
> I wish it wasn't an exe, but I had to use what I already know (ie:
> Delphi)
> to get it done quickly. Future efforts will probably be shockwave.
> 
> So I'm in this position where I'll be trying to convince all and
> sundry to
> download & run, or email, an executable. Bad me.
> 
> Here's the question... Does anyone know how to make an exe detect
> that it's
> file size has changed, and warn the user if it has (because it's
> probably
> been virus infected)? Or any other way to make an exe protect itself
> /
> detect problems? I'd ideally like to find a method that doesn't
> involve
> coding (ie: something that takes and exe and modifies it after the
> fact),
> but I might be willing to add code for really cool solutions. I just
> want to
> protect the users as much as possible, and make sure that an virus
> picked up
> has very little chance of spreading further.
> 
> Thanks,
> Emlyn
> 
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=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                       - Gen. John Stark
"Fascists are objectively pro-pacifist..."
                                       - Mike Lorrey
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