Hey can anyone help me with this one thing i thought of ..like i need a computer genius 4 this one?

Question

hey.

I got a virus on my computer and i barely got rid of it...it was a nightmare that week.

Ever since I've had this idea of making an antivirus system that prevents all such viruses and actually throws every virus that tried to infect your computer back to its creator as well as a bunch of other viruses and other nasty stuff...i mean so those guys get a taste of their own medecine...cn someone plz help me? becuz ive no idea how to develop it or anything

Answer 1

What you are advocating, in public, on a site controlled by regulators, is illegal. If somebody commits murder, does that give you the right to murder them? If someone steals your car can you steal theirs? The same law applies. It is an offence punishable by up to 30 years in prison to infect another persons machine. Even a criminal's machine. And you seem to show a total lack of understanding of how a virus works. The originator looks for a machine, or an email account, where there is poor security. He then pushes his software onto that machine. He at no stage contacts any of the machines he intends to infect. The machine he has attacked simply sends out a mass of emails, or attacks another machine with weak security. These other machines then repeat the process. So your reciprocal attack simply makes a further attack on his previous victims. This is like you killing the wife of the murder victim, just causing more grief for the innocent. If what you suggest was a possible remedy, don't you think someone with an actual idea of what computers are about might have done something about it?

Answer 2

Or you can just use good anti-virus and anti-spyware programs such as the ones I am going to list below to avoid this ever happening again.

-McAfee 12 in 1 Security Center (anti-virus)

or AVG if you want a free program

-Spyware Doctor with AV (anti-spyware)

or Spybot S&D if you want a free program

-PC Tools Firewall Plus(free) (firewall)

-ThreatFire(free) (added virus protection)

-CCleaner(keep computer running pretty good, cleans up history and whatnot)

-Firefox(safe browser)

*Also considering the fact that it is IMPOSSIBLE to create any anti-virus software that can stop every virus that has been and ever will be created and making your own viruses is also illegal and advertising your intentions isn't exactly a smart idea either.