searching for programs/strings in programs

i made a virus and broke all my computers (its that good) and im trying to make an antivirus now…ive got the gui ready and some simple commands but i want it to be able to search and destroy virus files…any help?
also, is there a way to push you out of the computer terminal like when you press esc?

For search&destroy: check names that override ROM functions such as "cd", "startup", "rm", "edit" etc.
Then you can open the files using the Fs API, and read the whole file into a string, which can be scanned for malicious commands such as "os.shutdown()" using the String API, and then removed using the Fs api again.

For pressing keys: Ctrl-T does that, but you would need to have an "os.pullEvent" or "os.pullEventRaw" in your program, since a key press is an event.
The "key" event returns the keycode of the key pressed, and if it's equal to the keycode of the esc key you know it's pressed.
I don't know the Esc keycode, but it's simple to get.

Write a program like this, run it and press any key to get the keycode returned.

local param = nil
while param == nil do
 event, param = os.pullEvent("key")
end
return param

This should work.

If I stated anything incorrectly, feel free to correct me. I'm only getting started as well, after all.

Esc is 1. But im not sure the os.queveEvent("key",1) would help at pushing you out…
Hope this helped.

thanks ill try all this out…but the string api doesnt have anything on the wiki so can someone explain the string.find thing pls?

awsumben13, on 16 July 2012 - 04:33 PM said:

thanks ill try all this out…but the string api doesnt have anything on the wiki so can someone explain the string.find thing pls?

It's a standard Lua api. It's on the Lua manual and there's a lot of tutorials about it.

There's a link to the lua documentation on the wiki as well.

gamesaucer, on 16 July 2012 - 06:40 PM said:

There's a link to the lua documentation on the wiki as well.

It's in my bookmarks XD I find it very handy
http://lua-users.org/wiki/StringLibraryTutorial