Creating an Anti-spyware program

[houseofbat]

I want to create an anti spyware program, however, I think the code would cause the program to become quite large. Any suggestions to over come this problem?
Thanks

[playmenow]

Are you sure about the code? I made a media player in AMS6, and it's almost 2 MegaBytes...so the size it's very small...the only fast & small way to do an anti-spyware/anti-virus is: use DLLs (Dynamic Link Library)..that's why there's the action to call a DLL...

[Corey]

AutoPlay Media Studio can make almost anything however it is definitely better suited to certain things than others. I would say a spyware suite is on the thin side of AMS functionality, so it will be a tricky project. But certainly possible. The size itself need not be large. If it's mainly code then you won't have any problem at all, code is relatively small. For the most part projects which don't contain audio/video or tons of images should be pretty small. I think it could be done with just a couple MB if you take care to make it efficient. I might be wrong, I've never built a spyware suite. :yes

Sounds cool though. I'll be excited to see it someday if your plan comes together. :yes

[Daniel TM]

if you get the CRC value of a virus and make your program search for and delete every file with that CRC value the program wouldn't be very big. Only the definition file (the file that has the CRC values of the viruses) would be big.