Writing a destructive trojan with C++...

[Mad Programmer]

I'm writing a destructive trojan with C++ and I need to know how I can
destroy the target's monitor and format the target's harddisk before the
target can stop the program.

What do I need to do?

[Clark S. Cox III]

On 2005-09-12 20:31:51 -0400, "Mad Programmer" <bu*@spiderwebo nmycpu.com> said:

I'm writing a destructive trojan with C++ and I need to know how I can
destroy the target's monitor and format the target's harddisk before
the target can stop the program.

What do I need to do?

Well, this program might do it:

void main()
{
}

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Clark S. Cox, III
cl*******@gmail .com

[Alf P. Steinbach]

* Mad Programmer:

I'm writing a destructive trojan with C++ and I need to know how I can
destroy the target's monitor and format the target's harddisk before the
target can stop the program.

What do I need to do?

Ask your teacher.

The question is off-topic in this group.

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[Wolfgang Draxinger]

Mad Programmer wrote:

I'm writing a destructive trojan with C++ and I need to know
how I can destroy the target's monitor
The program could hack into the electricity suppliers net and
give overvoltage to it. I see no other way to actually destroy
hardware. Ok it's possible to "brick" a BIOS Flash i.e.
overwriting it with garbage. But that is reversible with a
flasher.
and format the target's
harddisk before the target can stop the program.

Hehe, nice try. If you format the harddisk on a *nix your
programm will probably immediately stop after the first bytes of
the FS have been nulled. However these can be revovered.

Really: Writing a destructive programm doesn't show skill but
immaturenes. Writing a virus for educational purposes can be
interesting, as it requires fiddling around on a low level. OTOH
on a sanely designed system you will hardly find executables you
can overwrite without root permission. And if $HOME is on a
parition mounted with the "noexec", option then it's almost
impossible to get malcode permanently on the system.

Unfortunately the widely used Windows OS is insecure by design.
Almost every of the "bad design points" described in
http://www.ranum.com/security/comput...itorials/dumb/
apply to Windows.

Wolfgang Draxinger
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[Kai-Uwe Bux]

Mad Programmer wrote:

I'm writing a destructive trojan with C++ and I need to know how I can
destroy the target's monitor and format the target's harddisk before the
target can stop the program.

What do I need to do?

Monitors and harddisks are platform specific. In order to obtain useful and
competent answers, you should ask this question in a forum dedicated to the
computers you are trying to destroy.
Best

Kai-Uwe Bux

[Kev]

"Mad Programmer" <bu*@spiderwebo nmycpu.com> wrote in news:dg56lt$ko1 $1
@domitilla.aioe .org:

What do I need to do?

Why bother writing one? Just go to your local drugstore. They have more
trojans than anyone will ever need. Well.... most everyone.

[John Harrison]

Kai-Uwe Bux wrote:

Mad Programmer wrote:

I'm writing a destructive trojan with C++ and I need to know how I can
destroy the target's monitor and format the target's harddisk before the
target can stop the program.

What do I need to do?

Monitors and harddisks are platform specific. In order to obtain useful and
competent answers, you should ask this question in a forum dedicated to the
computers you are trying to destroy.
Best

Kai-Uwe Bux

Hilarious!

john

[Zara]

Mad Programmer wrote:

I'm writing a destructive trojan with C++ and I need to know how I can
destroy the target's monitor and format the target's harddisk before the
target can stop the program.

What do I need to do?

Is it a troll? An imp?

Nah, it must be a joker! (Batman style, of course)

[Christian Meier]

"Clark S. Cox III" <cl*******@gmai l.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:2005091220 361116807%clark cox3@gmailcom.. .

On 2005-09-12 20:31:51 -0400, "Mad Programmer" <bu*@spiderwebo nmycpu.com> said:

I'm writing a destructive trojan with C++ and I need to know how I can
destroy the target's monitor and format the target's harddisk before
the target can stop the program.

What do I need to do?
Well, this program might do it:

void main()

With int main() the virus is even better! :-)
{
}

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Clark S. Cox, III
cl*******@gmail .com

[Salil]

if u are serious about this then u can try to mess with some Rom-Bios
Interrupts.. you might come across something useful..