Build your First "Hello World Virus" in Delphi
Friday June 26, 2009
Delphi for fun :: 
Who said programming cannot be fun? Let's create a simple "memory eater" that executes itself an unlimited number of times - thus consuming all the Windows memory :)
Annoy fellow co-workers! Run a Hello World Virus on their computers...
Note: While this article uses the term "virus", the code demonstrated here is not a virus or any other form of malware. If you use this program to annoy your co-workers - you may have to deal with the repercussions!
Who said programming cannot be fun? Let's create a simple "memory eater" that executes itself an unlimited number of times - thus consuming all the Windows memory :) Annoy fellow co-workers! Run a Hello World Virus on their computers...
Note: While this article uses the term "virus", the code demonstrated here is not a virus or any other form of malware. If you use this program to annoy your co-workers - you may have to deal with the repercussions!
Comments
“Hello World” Virus?..!
I don’t see why this is fun!..?
This is cool and fun.
Besides this is not a real virus that can destroy your Windows but this is only for a joke and the point is I can learn more the coding itself.
Who said this is not fun ? you have no sense of humor… peace
I have one on my computer now (at home). I don’t know how to get rid of it! HELP. This is all the information I can find.
Becky, do you have “a virus” or have you runn the “Hello World Virus” from the article?
pls how can i cleanse the hello world virus or the exec.regrun virus bcos its killing my batteries. mail ur opinion to mikeaideloje@yahoo.com
Usually I like the articles coming from your postings. This one I don’t. It like showing off how fast you can drive on the highway. What is the benefit in presenting a virus. Please, go back to useful programming.
The tips and the challenges you organize are pretty cool, but belive me, its not a good idea to publish this kind of stuff, you will get tons of the kind of comments before mine: some experienced programmers not happy, some newbies defending this kind of postings and lots of people asking for unrelated virus removals. Come on, we live in a lame world, and this kind of articles just get the worst kind of attention, seriously. Its like “yellow press” of programming.
Btw, the code itself may be attractive for a few newbies but its not fun at all heh, its just a damn memory eater! Its a boring program in fact, and as a joke is a bad one. And its not cool to disturb people at job.
My advise is to remove the article and the comments and forget this kind of postings to get attention to the site, its bad press.
Cheers
uhm…sometimes it seems to me that my fellow software developers are so boring|lawful|annoying in their continuous effort in not understanding this kind of things: there’s no hacker left inside of you? I mean not the hacker destroying things, the one who search for more knowledge. Some times it seems you are from a primary school…I don’t know… Thanks Zarko, your blog is great.
That’s stupid…. really stupid!
You guys gotta be kidding! Anyone that thinks that this is anything even remotely related to a real virus, or that this article is somehow going to assist some nefarious characters in creating real world virii needs to go back to square one. sheesh!
Sadly, it seems that Delphi users have no sense of humour