Thread: Exe suicide

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    Exe suicide

    What's an efficient method in having an exe delete itself after completing its task?
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    And why would you want to do that?

    Not for some sort of malicious purpose I hope?

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    Actually, I asked because I was curious of how some Trojan servers do it. But, no, not for malicious purposes.
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    couldn't you just use a system command for that? like system("del xxxxx.exe");

    i dunno just a guess

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    No, an application cannot delete itself.
    You can spawn a process which will kill and delete the original process, than you can get windows to delete the spawned exectuable.

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    my bad

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    Yeah, could I send some command to windows to delete the exe at a certain time? Time bomb.....
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