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[atruepretense]

Hello everyone,

So I have an awesome professor for my Advanced C++ class at my college. He wants us to create the most complex, and in depth joke computer virus we can. It has to be all written in C++ and has to actually scare the hell out of someone.

I've decided to write one that is actually an AI. A message will pop on the screen that will begin to speak to you. You respond, and if you respond with any type of curse words, the AI will begin to lock up your system and "delete" your hard drive. Otherwise if you speak nicely, it will eventually let you go after running some mischief.

I need to block of Ctrl + Alt + Del and do not know how I can go about it. If someone tries to use that command, the AI goes crazy and trashes everything. Can anyone help me with some example?

P.S The best part about my joke virus, is that it will start up with the PC for a whole week and constantly bug the person to talk to it. If you don't speak to it, it'll actually cause more "destruction". It's really annoying but works great. haha.

[TeenChristian]

I know for a Batch file there was a piece of code that could actually make some files disappear and another set of code that makes it re-appear... That would be a great alternative for just telling the user their hard drive was going to be deleted. I'm not sure how you would do something like that, but it sounds funny. By the way what college are you going to?

[atruepretense]

That definitely would be funny. I might just include that, and I am at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, PA. It's cheaper completing my two years here, then I might try MIT. If I don't make it there (Which I probably won't get in), i'm going to try Lehigh or West Chester.

[TeenChristian]

Thats cool :) I hope you make it into MIT
Anyway... like I said before I wouldn't know how to program a virus in C++
but I do know that you can make very interesting virus's in a batch file which runs in cmd (command prompt)
I also know you can make a C++ program that you can run in cmd
So It probably would be a good idea to try to somehow run the batch code through your C++ program...
Do you know what I mean?

[atruepretense]

TeenChristian said:

Thats cool :) I hope you make it into MIT
Anyway... like I said before I wouldn't know how to program a virus in C++
but I do know that you can make very interesting virus's in a batch file which runs in cmd (command prompt)
I also know you can make a C++ program that you can run in cmd
So It probably would be a good idea to try to somehow run the batch code through your C++ program...
Do you know what I mean?

Yeah I definitely do, and thanks for the vote of confidence. :D I am definitely not going GUI, it would just be annoying and bring in a lot of useless code. As for using batches, I might consider it, I'd just have to encrypt the files somehow to avoid being deleted. According to the prof's guidelines, it needs to resist anything a basic computer user would try to do to remove it. What kind of batch do you have in mind? Any samples?

[TeenChristian]

Well there are many batch virus's out there... I just Googled it and found a couple really nice examples:
Batch Virus : Hardik - The Ethical Hacking
Batch Programing - The Ethical Hacking
Basic Batch Virus Prank

Just Google it and you'll find so many more... Just don't test them on your own computer ^^
Allot of the actual virus's you find on the internet can probably be tamed down a bit for prank use.
The links I gave you have actual examples of virus's that could really hurt your computer... unless your professor really wants that :D

[atruepretense]

TeenChristian said:

Well there are many batch virus's out there... I just Googled it and found a couple really nice examples:
Batch Virus : Hardik - The Ethical Hacking
Batch Programing - The Ethical Hacking
Basic Batch Virus Prank

Just Google it and you'll find so many more... Just don't test them on your own computer ^^
Allot of the actual virus's you find on the internet can probably be tamed down a bit for prank use.
The links I gave you have actual examples of virus's that could really hurt your computer... unless your professor really wants that :D

Thanks for the links bro, unfortunately, to use any kind of batch file, it could only be a small part of the total program. All the AI work and everything else has to be in C++. He really doesn't want destruction just because we'd have to recover his computer after each presentation of work. haha:p

I'll post up some current code soon..

[TeenChristian]

yeah that would be a pain :lol:
I can't wait to see the final product. when your finished coding the project you should totally put it up on the forum's for people to try.
possibly with a disabling button just so users (other then your professor) wouldn't have to deal with it for a whole week hehe
As far as those popup dialog boxes you wanted (the boxes with the threatening messages) I know Visual C++ makes is extremely easy to
include them...
Visual C++ MFC Controls: Dialog Boxes
the link above will bring you to a tutorial,
I hope it helps ^^