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

[Emlyn O'regan]

This exe will be going out via email (hopefully, assuming people like it and
want to forward it) to people all over the net (ie: not in my office). I
can't control their computer setups, so I'm trying to build some protection
into the exe.

Emlyn

> 
> 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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