basic malware detector

Inspiration

Being our first hackathon, we entered assuming that we would be hacking into other people's computers, so we came with some bot scripts. It turns out that's not the point of a hackathon at all, so we decided to keep one bot script and write a malware detecting script that would find malware of similar types.

What it does

Very rudimentary, tests if a malware program is creating a huge amount of files and deletes it.

How we built it

Written using C++

Challenges we ran into

We really had no idea what we were getting ourselves into, but it was fun to just write a small quaint project that does something simple.

Accomplishments that we proud of

Although the scope of our project is fairly limited, it demonstrates one method of malware detection. Quick googling shows that malware comes in many different forms and does different stuff, and our project shows one method that finds and deletes malware of a particular type.

What we learned

Hackathons aren't actually about trying to brick other peoples' computers or taking down the wifi.

Built With

• c++