A Self Destructing Program in C

Submitted by Srikanth on Saturday, 1 March 200814 Comments

This program will destroy itself upon execution.The program will cause the .exe file to be deleted upon execution.That is this program is capable of destroying itself upon execution.Heres the code

#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
#include<dos.h>
void main()
{
printf(“This program will destroy itself if u press any key!!!\n”);
getch();
remove(_argv[0]);/*array of pointers to command line arguments*/
}

HOW TO COMPILE ?
Load the source code to the compiler and compile(press Alt-F9) and then press F9.This will generate the .exe file in the current directory(Bin directory).Execute this .exe file it will destroy itself upon execution.

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14 Comments »

anarghya said:

i donot understand remove(_argv[0])

- 2 March 2008 at 5:44 pm

Srikanth (author) said:

Whenever we run any program the element _argv[0] (array of ptrs to command line arguments) contains the name of the program itself.For eg: If we are running a program(.exe file) whose name is “sample.exe” then the _argv[0] would contain this name.That is why we are passing _argv[0](nothing but the name of the program) as an argument to remove() function which will delete itsef eventually

- 3 March 2008 at 12:43 am

Anonymous said:

hi,
i am bharadwaj and i want to destroy orkut account with a simple program is there any posibility pls

check it

- 27 October 2008 at 11:42 am

Srikanth (author) said:

@ Bharadwaj

Are you joking? It’s not possible yaar…

- 27 October 2008 at 3:40 pm

josh said:

i didn’t get it. do i need to copy and paste this code and save in any format . will i be runnig it later or wat?????? pls help me m confused
Pls reply ASAP

- 5 March 2009 at 11:30 pm

Srikanth (author) said:

@ josh

Copy and paste the code to a notepad. Rename the extension from .txt to .C, now compile it to get an executable(.exe file). Now if you execute/run this file it’ll destroy itself upon execution.

- 8 March 2009 at 11:47 pm

abhishek said:

hi frnd………from which website,i can free download jdk1.6.0_02????????

- 24 March 2009 at 7:33 pm

Srikanth (author) said:

@ abhishek

You can download it from sun microsystem’s site… or search it on google.

- 25 March 2009 at 8:15 pm

Atinder said:

Mr.srikanth….er!!!rather Mr. bardwaj it is possible to delete orkut account u wish after having access…this cat be done easily by making a trojan …bypassing firewall….stealing data frm secure connection…not easy man…keep learning…and ur space filler…its beaten…kaspersky don’t let it execute if self defence is enabled…one thing more…a virus must be self replicating thus urs is only a mere pro….for more info ….read von nuemans self replication….keep it up man….njoy life

- 26 April 2009 at 1:15 pm

Yasir Ali said: