Member Avatar for usamaasghar.asghar

Hi every body! you are enjoying.

I have a problem that if a person writes in his code:

"system("shutdown -s")"

in his program and if I run .exe file, my computer shutdowns. How would I dodge this trick?

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Member Avatar for deceptikon

Don't run the .exe file? Anyway, that's not a "trick", it's legitimate code. There are innumerable ways a programmer can "trick" you with their code, and the solution is to avoid running programs from such programmers rather than expecting to somehow introspectively recognize the tricks in object code and "dodge" them.

Member Avatar for usamaasghar.asghar

can u tell me a method to dodge this?

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Member Avatar for rubberman

THere is no way, effectively to "dodge" this, other than by manually patching the machine code of the application itself to jump around the "system()" call.

Member Avatar for kvothetech

Move shutdown out of your PATH though honestly the just don't run it would be better

Member Avatar for usamaasghar.asghar

Is there any method to get the source code of that .exe file?

Member Avatar for pritaeas

THere is no way

You should be able to run this under a priviliged user account, which is not allowed to shutdown.

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