Finally..... Antivirus........ :)
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Many of the programmers will have either one of the dreams i.e creating an antivirus or creating their own operating system. Well, I had the former dream that creating an anti-virus of my own. After many months of hard work, I finally made an antivirus which meets most of the standard requirements for an anti-virus., It is a portable solution and it has many features included along with it see the screenshot here : [^] Okay, I wanted an antivirus, I created one! and I would like to distribute it. But I dont know whether I am a man or a boy., I am just 18 and a half years old and do not have too much of money and time to promote and supporting so I decided to make this as an open-source one. Is there any way to get some kind of revenue from open-source products? Can you give some suggestion on what to do after this stage? making it open source or doing anything.... :^) :^) :confused::confused:
I wouldn't use/trust code I wrote for these and many more: Operating System Antivirus Encryption Compression
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Thank you sir! My product is not for sale, It is a freeware may be open-source I just asked any ideas and suggestions?. It is not a feasible solution at-least for me to embed a ransomware successfully into an application with hundreds of servers working under a torrified network targeting the whole world and I am not interested to get that kind of moeny from making others suffer. Sorry sir My English is bad, I dont know sir how you understood all I asked is if I make opensource is there any value in it. I cannot compel others to buy a product which is free. :cool:
I think OriginalGriff answered your question well and honestly, even though it was not the question you were asking. I think you will have a difficult time a) getting interest in development of this project, and b) getting people to actually use it - because of the issues that OriginalGriff raised. I wish you well in your endeavour, but I think to be successful, it will take some luck and at least a decade of hard work and building a team of support.
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VISWESWARAN1998 wrote:
Many of the programmers will have either one of the dreams i.e creating an antivirus or creating their own operating system.
I'm going to admit that I have in fact dreamed about creating my own operating system. I think back in the day (the 1980's, yay! :laugh:) when we had 8-bit/16-bit machines and < 1MB RAM it would have been possible, but these days the hardware is a lot more complex and the job's so much bigger that it needs a decent sized team to get it done.
VISWESWARAN1998 wrote:
After many months of hard work, I finally made an antivirus
Well done! :thumbsup:
VISWESWARAN1998 wrote:
I am just 18 and a half years old and do not have too much of money and time to promote and supporting so I decided to make this as an open-source one.
Unfortunately in most cases these days, it takes money to make money. We missed the boat which was really around the late-90's/early-00's. From my side, I suffered too much from that all-too-British condition of "bah humbug, nobody's going to want that" only to watch as our (mostly) American cousins launched the very same things (Facebook, Twitter, eBay, PayPal, Google, CodeProject :((, etc..). I'd say that these days, open source is (most of the time) the way to go. At least you get the credit for the work you've done, even if it doesn't take off (e.g. something to show at an interview).
VISWESWARAN1998 wrote:
Is there any way to get some kind of revenue from open-source products?
Not really, because anyone can grab your code at any time. Some companies do it by offering paid enterprise-level support (RedHat, Ubuntu) but they're not in the league of companies like Microsoft or Apple and will probably never get there because paying them is optional (and most users choose not to). My advice is to keep up coming up with ideas, you'll hit on something great at some point. You don't have to worry about coming up with something new either, just do it better than anything else out there on the market.
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
I like Brent's reflection he supplied you with. Think he's giving you some sound direction there but I would depart on two elements from what he's saying. First would be the premise that what you've done isn't of value to you personally and the second would be that you can't make some money from the effort. BUT... Here is the deal... What you've done is provided yourself with a lovely and impressive element to your portfolio. I'm sure being one dreaming of lofty goals such as OS and A/V creation that you also are kinda hoping to be setting yourself up for means to cruse through the next few years with an elevated state of financial wellbeing. However, what you've built is more likely to be a key to open doors of opportunity for you if you choose to use it to your benefit. Employers are impressed with initiative.. Your A/V demonstrates you have that. Employers are impressed with people finishing tasks.. Demonstrated as well. Employers say they like fresh faces but in reality the biggest hurdle for young coders is that they like experience even more. So, your A/V shows you have some measure of experience from which THEY can benefit and perhaps even shows potential for their investment in you as a long term resource. There is your money... Go get em tiger!
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Thank you sir for your kind encouragement P.S I have made it open-source GitHub - VISWESWARAN1998/CyberGod-KSGMPRH: An open-source antivirus for windows[^] It has some other features too!
Having it out as freeware makes it like a published article, another way to go. Programming techniques get challenged and proven that way. I seriously cannot think of a practical way to make money on it, but that shouldn't discourage you. As freeware, take technical criticisms and see what you can learn from them in return. While they are correct in saying you cannot compete with the big boys, it is still an accomplishment and a milestone.
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Many of the programmers will have either one of the dreams i.e creating an antivirus or creating their own operating system. Well, I had the former dream that creating an anti-virus of my own. After many months of hard work, I finally made an antivirus which meets most of the standard requirements for an anti-virus., It is a portable solution and it has many features included along with it see the screenshot here : [^] Okay, I wanted an antivirus, I created one! and I would like to distribute it. But I dont know whether I am a man or a boy., I am just 18 and a half years old and do not have too much of money and time to promote and supporting so I decided to make this as an open-source one. Is there any way to get some kind of revenue from open-source products? Can you give some suggestion on what to do after this stage? making it open source or doing anything.... :^) :^) :confused::confused:
First, If you are interested in a job, contacted me privately via email. What you did should be COMMENDED. It is something I have "dreamed" of but I already wrote a compiler, and a run-time system (a lightweight OS type shell on old computers), excel-like embedded spreadsheet. You show gumption, and potentially core skills that are solid, and useful. Second, You miss the point some are making. There are those of us with enough experience to tell you this will end badly. You need an update server, new virus definitions, etc. And I have personally seen viruses that attack Norton/others. Literally preventing them from loading! Catching viruses is a moving target, requiring a fair amount of resources. Dealing with False Positives, etc. etc. The potential for slowing a machine down. And the OG makes the point that you could literally hit an update server, grab an update, that turns out to be RANSOM WARE (because they hacked your update server), and now every client has ransom ware installed. Huge risks, low reward. Third, Completing a project like this is a great sign. You should go far in your career. Try writing a CP article on pieces of this, like that FS Machine that scans multiple viruses in a single pass. How this is built/maintained/updated. Fourth, Pass on trying to monetize this, other than adding to your street cred, or assisting you in getting a better position, including working for one of the existing Anti-virus companies. Or being the basis of some articles, etc. Fifth, Reach back to me privately, I know someone who is interested in a person of your apparent skills.
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Many of the programmers will have either one of the dreams i.e creating an antivirus or creating their own operating system. Well, I had the former dream that creating an anti-virus of my own. After many months of hard work, I finally made an antivirus which meets most of the standard requirements for an anti-virus., It is a portable solution and it has many features included along with it see the screenshot here : [^] Okay, I wanted an antivirus, I created one! and I would like to distribute it. But I dont know whether I am a man or a boy., I am just 18 and a half years old and do not have too much of money and time to promote and supporting so I decided to make this as an open-source one. Is there any way to get some kind of revenue from open-source products? Can you give some suggestion on what to do after this stage? making it open source or doing anything.... :^) :^) :confused::confused:
I looked at your GitHub code. If you wrote half of that you're clearly very talented as a student. Although m understanding is you're checking the hash of files. so you now need a known list of viruses. Do you happen to know MVC and HTML. I could do with teaming up with someone for my web app with some coding skill.
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If you think you need "hundreds of servers working under a torrified network" to produce ransomware, you are sadly wrong, and probably will get a big - and expensive - shock if you are not very, very careful. Ransomware basically encrypts your PC and sends the decryption code to a web site. All it needs for that is for you to run an application on your computer. Some ransomware doesn't even bother with the "encrypt", or "send to base" parts: as long as the user can't access the data and knows where to pay the money, the b*st*rds win: and the simplest way to do that is to just overwrite the HDD with random cr@p and tell the user it's encrypted. We had a guy caught that way a year or so ago - he paid, the code didn't work, the elephants wanted more money for "another code". Criminals do not always tell you the truth...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
I had a friend who got duped into a ransomware attack a few months back. I don't think it was terribly sophisticated either. They called him pretending to be Microsoft and convinced him to let them remote to his machine to "fix" something. Yeah... they fixed it by placing a nice little login into the system start-up and were requiring him to pay to get into it. Fortunately he called me and I was able to at least get the content off his hard drive and reload the O/S. As you stated, it doesn't take a lot to pull that kind of scheme off. Just one developer that knows a little bit about how the systems work.
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Many of the programmers will have either one of the dreams i.e creating an antivirus or creating their own operating system. Well, I had the former dream that creating an anti-virus of my own. After many months of hard work, I finally made an antivirus which meets most of the standard requirements for an anti-virus., It is a portable solution and it has many features included along with it see the screenshot here : [^] Okay, I wanted an antivirus, I created one! and I would like to distribute it. But I dont know whether I am a man or a boy., I am just 18 and a half years old and do not have too much of money and time to promote and supporting so I decided to make this as an open-source one. Is there any way to get some kind of revenue from open-source products? Can you give some suggestion on what to do after this stage? making it open source or doing anything.... :^) :^) :confused::confused:
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Good luck with that! Would I use it? No. Why not? You are a student, so the chances are that the antivirus was written to student standards, and tested to student standards as well. Those generally mean "none" and "very little" ... and that your exposure to virus signatures will likely be reduced, and slower than the "big boys" who meet new viruses every day. Antivirus is important - we all know that - and since some of the big players give the product away, like Microsoft Defender for example, getting a new free antivirus out there is not going to be easy. Me? I pay for Kaspersky because I know it's tested, I know it's updated, I know it doesn't slug my system every afternoon like Defender did. Yours? I don't even know if it works, that it isn't ransomware in disguise, anything at all. I'll stick with Kaspersky, thanks.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
I just let my Kaspersky expire, since all members of my family got tired of their computer being unacceptably slow and just accepted Windows Defender as a default. Kaspersky had options to not scan if you are playing games or are on battery power, but that is no help if you are merely doing web or email stuff. I routinely had to unplug my laptop to stop the scanning so I could get work done, but working without power only goes so far.
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Many of the programmers will have either one of the dreams i.e creating an antivirus or creating their own operating system. Well, I had the former dream that creating an anti-virus of my own. After many months of hard work, I finally made an antivirus which meets most of the standard requirements for an anti-virus., It is a portable solution and it has many features included along with it see the screenshot here : [^] Okay, I wanted an antivirus, I created one! and I would like to distribute it. But I dont know whether I am a man or a boy., I am just 18 and a half years old and do not have too much of money and time to promote and supporting so I decided to make this as an open-source one. Is there any way to get some kind of revenue from open-source products? Can you give some suggestion on what to do after this stage? making it open source or doing anything.... :^) :^) :confused::confused:
To get some payment out of it, you might try asking for a donation. In the about box, you can ask the user if he would consider making a donation toward improving the product. This is a form of shareware. Then again, since you have made a product, you can add it to your portfolio and scout the jobs at companies the making anti-virus software. Your new software creation will help you getting that job.
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I just let my Kaspersky expire, since all members of my family got tired of their computer being unacceptably slow and just accepted Windows Defender as a default. Kaspersky had options to not scan if you are playing games or are on battery power, but that is no help if you are merely doing web or email stuff. I routinely had to unplug my laptop to stop the scanning so I could get work done, but working without power only goes so far.
Strange - I moved to Kaspersky because Defender slugged the computer for several hours every afternoon, despite being told to scan between midnight and 05:00. Kaspersky does nothing slow on my PC at all - and it's only a dual core with 4GB of RAM! Just goes to show that PC are far too different for their own good sometimes! :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I looked at your GitHub code. If you wrote half of that you're clearly very talented as a student. Although m understanding is you're checking the hash of files. so you now need a known list of viruses. Do you happen to know MVC and HTML. I could do with teaming up with someone for my web app with some coding skill.
Thank you sir for your kind encouragement. The DOS engine is itself self-documented code and it is commented throughly for better understanding of some one is willing to imporve/modify and make it fit for their use. Sorry sir, I am a student actually, I will feel shy working in a company! Thank you for this opportunity!
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To get some payment out of it, you might try asking for a donation. In the about box, you can ask the user if he would consider making a donation toward improving the product. This is a form of shareware. Then again, since you have made a product, you can add it to your portfolio and scout the jobs at companies the making anti-virus software. Your new software creation will help you getting that job.
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First, If you are interested in a job, contacted me privately via email. What you did should be COMMENDED. It is something I have "dreamed" of but I already wrote a compiler, and a run-time system (a lightweight OS type shell on old computers), excel-like embedded spreadsheet. You show gumption, and potentially core skills that are solid, and useful. Second, You miss the point some are making. There are those of us with enough experience to tell you this will end badly. You need an update server, new virus definitions, etc. And I have personally seen viruses that attack Norton/others. Literally preventing them from loading! Catching viruses is a moving target, requiring a fair amount of resources. Dealing with False Positives, etc. etc. The potential for slowing a machine down. And the OG makes the point that you could literally hit an update server, grab an update, that turns out to be RANSOM WARE (because they hacked your update server), and now every client has ransom ware installed. Huge risks, low reward. Third, Completing a project like this is a great sign. You should go far in your career. Try writing a CP article on pieces of this, like that FS Machine that scans multiple viruses in a single pass. How this is built/maintained/updated. Fourth, Pass on trying to monetize this, other than adding to your street cred, or assisting you in getting a better position, including working for one of the existing Anti-virus companies. Or being the basis of some articles, etc. Fifth, Reach back to me privately, I know someone who is interested in a person of your apparent skills.
Yes sir, you have right it needs solid database,man-power and through monitoring of the product server itself. and I cannot make this much set-up on my own at present situation. So I made my product as open-source. With millions of open-sorce software developers I think it would be soon be an alternative to commercial solution. Thank you sir for your job offer! I am shy to work under a company since I am a student. Kindly excuse me
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I wouldn't use/trust code I wrote for these and many more: Operating System Antivirus Encryption Compression
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Many of the programmers will have either one of the dreams i.e creating an antivirus or creating their own operating system. Well, I had the former dream that creating an anti-virus of my own. After many months of hard work, I finally made an antivirus which meets most of the standard requirements for an anti-virus., It is a portable solution and it has many features included along with it see the screenshot here : [^] Okay, I wanted an antivirus, I created one! and I would like to distribute it. But I dont know whether I am a man or a boy., I am just 18 and a half years old and do not have too much of money and time to promote and supporting so I decided to make this as an open-source one. Is there any way to get some kind of revenue from open-source products? Can you give some suggestion on what to do after this stage? making it open source or doing anything.... :^) :^) :confused::confused:
You have very specific dreams, which I suppose could go either way as far as increasing your chances of accidentally becoming a billionaire (like Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, etc....don't think any of those on this kind of list had a particular dream other than to play with computers and somehow make money at it). I would like to see what you developed, but am scary about visiting any links that don't meet security checks, which these days amounts to a reputation check (that is a Catch-22 of course). If you put it up at github, let me know (please don't use sourceforge.net---those people still scare the hell out of me...never know if something is going to pop up from an install and scurry across the room to infect the denizens of earth). ...and that segues to to my own thoughts on anti-malware lately, which is that it would be nice to have access to a massive database of reputation scan information and code hashes. VirusTotal does make their database API available, but unless you provide information to them you are limited to 4 queries per minute (so on my machine with tens of thousands of files someone will have proven NP == P by the time the scan completes, at which time the Universe will evaporate).
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Thank you sir for your kind encouragement. The DOS engine is itself self-documented code and it is commented throughly for better understanding of some one is willing to imporve/modify and make it fit for their use. Sorry sir, I am a student actually, I will feel shy working in a company! Thank you for this opportunity!
"Shying" away from a company might make sense from the standpoint of wanting to finish your education before starting a career; however, continually backing away from all legitimate work is not encouraging anyone to actually utilize your product. Humans are not attracted to that which lurks in the shadows.
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"Shying" away from a company might make sense from the standpoint of wanting to finish your education before starting a career; however, continually backing away from all legitimate work is not encouraging anyone to actually utilize your product. Humans are not attracted to that which lurks in the shadows.
Sir, how could a person who is in the mid of his bachelor's degree could skip his education and join in a company? I could be surrounded by a person's who might hold masters. Anyone in this situation could shy. It is impractical to skip my education i.e if some unexpected things happened then I can't go back and continue studies. I am not backing off, the job of the student is to study
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You have very specific dreams, which I suppose could go either way as far as increasing your chances of accidentally becoming a billionaire (like Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, etc....don't think any of those on this kind of list had a particular dream other than to play with computers and somehow make money at it). I would like to see what you developed, but am scary about visiting any links that don't meet security checks, which these days amounts to a reputation check (that is a Catch-22 of course). If you put it up at github, let me know (please don't use sourceforge.net---those people still scare the hell out of me...never know if something is going to pop up from an install and scurry across the room to infect the denizens of earth). ...and that segues to to my own thoughts on anti-malware lately, which is that it would be nice to have access to a massive database of reputation scan information and code hashes. VirusTotal does make their database API available, but unless you provide information to them you are limited to 4 queries per minute (so on my machine with tens of thousands of files someone will have proven NP == P by the time the scan completes, at which time the Universe will evaporate).
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Yes, Sir the project is hosted on Github GitHub - VISWESWARAN1998/CyberGod-KSGMPRH: An open-source antivirus for windows[^]
Nice work, particularly for an 18 year old way down there in Madurai (rural I guess from reference to Karuppu Sami in the .h headers). I just looked over your code and see that you are (1) looking for a known malware hash in your local database ksgmprh.db SQLite file (2) looking for any upx packed exe's (3) looking for any suspicious strings in the executable, but I couldn't find what database of strings you are using for that (and didn't see an obvious reference in your unit-tests.cpp (I thought maybe you had your custom strings in the SQLite database, but didn't see where else you had the known file hashes--maybe you haven't fully implemented the suspicous string database yet?). I see you are proficient in Python. I might need your help porting the old Unix diction and style c code to Python 2.7 (if I can't compile it locally with MSVC scraps).
