Hey everyone: i have a project to do in assembly(8086) and i want to do a simple anti-virus.
The idea is that you will write the path (url) to a document that you want to scan. The program will scan it and will compare it to a known viruses.
can you tell me how complicated it should be? Because i dont want to do a very complicated project.
Can you also give me a list of known viruses? If you have any additional information to give i will be happy to hear it! Thank you very muc
theBigB 0 Newbie Poster
L7Sqr 227 Practically a Master Poster
How will what you are doing compare (or be distinct from) existing anti-virus software packages? There is an entire industry built around this - presumably using more user friendly tools/languages than direct assembly. Why not start there and see what you can leverage?
theBigB 0 Newbie Poster
Because i need to build a project in assembly, any project that will be big enough and complicated enough.the project size should be about 1000-2000 lines of code, but he can be little smaller or bigger. Some of our class are building a game, i chose the antivirus subject because i am really attract to that subject. Thank you for helping!
theBigB 0 Newbie Poster
And about the compare method: i thought to put the package of the viruses in a string arry and put the file we want to scan in another one. And to do a loop to check if there are similar strings and how much. If there are more than certain number of similar words the program will report on him as a virus.
I dont mean that the program should really be complicated as an anti-virus (with hundreds and thousands of viruses packages, it's enough for me that it will have only one or few single virusepackages.
L7Sqr 227 Practically a Master Poster
Instead of looking for real examples of malicious code, why not just create a simple mock of what you intend to show? For example, if what you really want to show is that you can compare one file to another - chunk by chunk - and report the similarities you can use simple text files. Or generate your own binary (compile a Hello World sample).
That gets the point across for the implementation and you can talk to how that would be useful in a larger context - such as anti-virus.
theBigB 0 Newbie Poster
Because the project should be pretty big (about 2000 lines of code), and project like that wouldn't take more the few hundreds lines of code.
theBigB 0 Newbie Poster
But what you're saying is a good idea. I guess i will start with comparing simple text, and when the "emulator" project will be ready i will test it on real malicious code. thank you for helping!
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