Zeal wrote:
Hi there
I hope I am about to ask my question in the right group.
I am a new to c++ programming, basically I have been doing VB and .Net
for a while now. I am writing a basic console applications to start
with. The question I would like to ask is, is it possible to write
programs that are unable to be formatted? My intention is to write a
robust security toll as my laptop has been pinched twice. What I need
to know is is something like this even possible?
There is nothing specific to C++ about your question and so it's off
topic in c.l.c++.
More to the point, there is very little you can do with today's systems.
Perhaps a boot password but a knowledgeable thief can circumvent just
about anything you do except for a BIOS modification.
On most systems, even to modify the BIOS, you need to load the BIOS, so
this means you always have control.
A BIOS call home feature should be fairly trivial, the only problem is
you need a network. If you're really clever, you can make the BIOS
patch almost undetectable.
Most of this would be done in assembler +C, maybe a little C++, but if
it's your first encounter, you have a very steep learning curve.