Thread: Guess what this 5.5kb program does.

I figure that a user who has been around as long as Cool August probably won't try posting a virus or spyware on a message board, plus, a group of C/C++ programmers is probably the wrong group to try to victimize.

Me too, but I also figure that since he's asking, it's obviously not what I'll think it does. As I have almost zero knowledge of how to figure out what a program is really doing when it's running, and the program in question is trying to trick me, I really don't stand a chance. Besides, he asked me to guess and it was the first thing that came to my head.

>> It does nothing
Yes ... it does.

>> No offence but posting something like this seems really dumb to me.
None taken.

>> Why Twice?
>> Why Twice?
Hmmm ... you got me there.

BTW: I fixed the parse error on my site.

>> I figure that a user who has been around as long as
>> Cool August probably won't try posting a virus or spyware
>> on a message board, plus, a group of C/C++ programmer
>> is probably the wrong group to try to victimize.
No, it's not a virus or spyware, or anything that's going to hurt your computer.
I mean, when you think about it, what kind of spyware are you going to put in a 5.50kb file?

>> I won't execute a binary COM program w/o knowing what it does.
It's not a COM program, I had to change the extention from .exe to .com to get the server to let me upload it. And .com will still execute on a system without renaming.


*hint* hkey

Doesn't take many commands to make something that copies itself to another place in memory.

> what kind of spyware are you going to put in a 5.50kb file?
Well since old viruses used to fit in a couple of hundred bytes, and there was once a chess program for the zx81 in all of 1K, who knows. Could be an entire OS.

Isn't there a like 80kb FPS game that does proceddually generated graphics?

Yes, kkreiger

> what kind of spyware are you going to put in a 5.50kb file?
Back in my day, the operating system fit in one byte, and the viruses fit in a nibble

DOS viruses used to be about 100-200 bytes and could do anything, I think they used DEBUG command
They just edited some memory at some location.

We're not suspecting it's a virus. We are just discussing how small programs can be.

BTW, I once made a 1.25Kb PE.

Originally Posted by Queatrix

It's not a virus, okay?

Why don't you simply say what it does for those that actually care and be done with it.

Is it that hard for you to understand most people aren't willing to download an executable from someone they don't know? Especially when they are asked to find out what it does? Are you dense?

> It places a sz value in the registry.

Thank you. Now we know what it does and we may better decide if we want to download and run it or not. Was it that hard?