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From: Robin on 20 Feb 2010 22:47
Does anyone know how to start learning how to and or learn how to
start programming in perl a virus scanner or a firewall in perl?

Thanks,
-Robin
From: Ben Morrow on 21 Feb 2010 07:43

Quoth Robin <robin1(a)cnsp.com>:
> Does anyone know how to start learning how to and or learn how to
> start programming in perl a virus scanner or a firewall in perl?

It would be extremely difficult to write a firewall in Perl. You need to
get into the OS' network stack at a very low level, and that isn't easy
in Perl. A virus scanner basically just looks for known patterns in
files, but writing the scanner isn't the hard part: the hard part is
working out which patterns match viruses.

Ben

From: Robin on 24 Feb 2010 03:41


Ben Morrow wrote:
> Quoth Robin <robin1(a)cnsp.com>:
> > Does anyone know how to start learning how to and or learn how to
> > start programming in perl a virus scanner or a firewall in perl?
>
> It would be extremely difficult to write a firewall in Perl. You need to
> get into the OS' network stack at a very low level, and that isn't easy
> in Perl. A virus scanner basically just looks for known patterns in
> files, but writing the scanner isn't the hard part: the hard part is
> working out which patterns match viruses.
>
> Ben

thanks for the suggestion.
-Robin
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