in reply to Re: Self Deletion
in thread Self Deletion

I believe, although I might be wrong, that this is for the purposes of developing an uninstaller, which has the inevitable consequence of deleting files including itself.

This wasn't a suspicious request like:
calculating criticle mass
im trying calculate the critical mass of u235, does anyone have any sample code? Oh, does anyone know a quick way to compute yield? thanks!
Just as knives could be used to hurt people, they are most often used for cooking or other peaceful and productive purposes.

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Re 3.0(stuffy): Self Deletion
by stuffy (Monk) on Jul 07, 2001 at 13:44 UTC
    like andreychek said, there is no information as to what the intent is. Virus code was removed recently because it had the potential to become something that nobody wanted to be responsibl for. I don't think that most uninstallers go along deleting every file in a directory blindly, including itself. Why would you want to delete the uninstaller other then to rid the computer of the evidence as to what casued the deletion of the files. It looks a little suspecious to me. I'd like to see some reasoing behind the question, at least then some of the monks may be able to suggest a better way to do it. If it is for a ligit reason, the AM will have no problem following up and posting why they want to do this. It all comes down to the morality of posting potentially dangerous code on PM's.

    Stuffy
    That's my story, and I'm sticking to it, unless I'm wrong in which case I will probably change it ;~)
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      Sure they do. A typical download will extract itself into a directory it creates off the TEMP directory, run it there, then delete it.
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