Guess what this 5.5kb program does.
http://queatrix.awardspace.com/value.com
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Guess what this 5.5kb program does.
http://queatrix.awardspace.com/value.com
It's a TRAP!
Oh come now, would I do that?
Ummm...wastes my time?
Have you executed it yet?
>> Ummm...wastes my time?
No more than browsing the GD board does.
It does nothing
Where did you get that program from? (Or) How did you make it?
Executing this program followed by a series of heavy strikes from a steel mallet has officially destroyed my computer... I hope you're happy.
If only I knew assembly...
A whole ton of "add [bx+si],al", perhaps an unrolled loop?
It appears you are pushing something out of some port, wow, I give up
Honestly who executes a program that they have no idea what it does. No offence but posting something like this seems really dumb to me.
I exectuted it but nothing happened? The only thing I noticed was that command prompt recongnized the program value as "value.com" under DIR
Of course not. I don't know what it does.Quote:
Have you executed it yet?
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.
Even if it didn't, what are the chances of it running under Wine if nothing else does?
Nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave_Sinkula
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.Quote:
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.
I won't execute a binary COM program w/o knowing what it does.
>> It does nothing
Yes ... it does. :D
>> 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? :p
>> 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.
It's not a virus, okay?
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.
Why don't you simply say what it does for those that actually care and be done with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Queatrix
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?
>> Is it that hard for you to understand most people aren't
>> willing to download an executable from someone they don't know?
I see you point.
>> Are you dense?
I resent that.
It places a sz value in the registry.
> 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?
>> It places a sz value in the registry.
... and the benifit of that is ...
>> chess program for the zx81 in all of 1K ...
With AI and all?
Sorry, but this thread seems pretty useless.
Yeah, had it been from a real noob with very few posts, it would have gone straight into the trash.
It would also have gone in the trash if there we're any warning signs of trouble in the executable (yes I looked at the code with a hex editor).
It's malware: it clutters your registry :)
I was right! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by psychopath
It gives you an error message!
;)Code:bash: malware.com: cannot execute binary file
dwks, then run it through WINE :D
>> Sorry, but this thread seems pretty useless.
Yeah, guess your right.
Got a lot of attention though. :D
>> (yes I looked at the code with a hex editor).
What hex editor do you use? I found a very nice one, but it's 30 days are over.
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dwks, then run it through WINE
I know, I know . . . get WINE. :)Code:bash: wine: command not found
I use hexedit, a Debian package. :) hex-<TAB> reveals that there's also something called hexeditor . . .
that 5.5 kb program sucks....
this 96 kb program rocks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kkrieger
Noooo!!! How come threads like these always turn into stupid link dumps? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by citizen
When I download and load kkreiger, it's load progress bar goes about %16 of the way and exits with no error. Any one else have that?
No...
Crashed about 5% in on my desktop... haven't gotten around to trying it on any other ocmputers in my house though.
It crashed the first time for me after load, before the intro screen... then it worked the second time. It's really easy, but it looks very good for its size.
It is good. A real masterpiece I would say.
>> then it worked the second time
That's not it, I tried it 4 times and it still didn't work.