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File suicide., How to make and exe delete itself.

benpap	31 Dec, 2007 - 05:32 PM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 24 Nov, 2007 Posts: 44 Dream Kudos: 100 My Contributions	Hello there, I was wondering how an exe file can delete itself after doing its work. I belive we use the kill command. I tried the following. Added a command button and then used this as a code: CODE End Kill "selfkiller.exe" The selfkiller.exe is the program itself. I really didnt think it would work and of course it did't. In case I put the kill command first an error appears that it can't access the file, which is logical because it is in use. Help me out if you can, thx!
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Martyr2	RE: File Suicide. 31 Dec, 2007 - 06:44 PM Post #2
Programming Theoretician Joined: 18 Apr, 2007 Posts: 5,655 Thanked: 313 times Expert In: C/C++, Java, VB, VB.NET, C#, PHP, Web Development, HTML & CSS, Javascript My Contributions	Well there is a few tricks you can use and all of them depend on the type of operating system you have, but one method is to create a batch file to do the deleting, another is to make calls to the windows API. There are a few others as well. You can read up on all the different methods at the link below... Self-deleting executables The author has done a nice job of outlining several ways of doing this task so I will leave it up to him to explain them all. Check out the link and I am sure you will see one that works for your situation. The code is in C/C++ but you can still make calls to the windows API by importing various DLLs and such. Enjoy!
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benpap	RE: File Suicide. 1 Jan, 2008 - 07:32 AM Post #3
New D.I.C Head Joined: 24 Nov, 2007 Posts: 44 Dream Kudos: 100 My Contributions	I'll find my answer definetly, a lot of thanks!
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PsychoCoder	RE: File Suicide. 1 Jan, 2008 - 10:57 AM Post #4
using DIC.Core; Joined: 26 Jul, 2007 Posts: 9,483 Thanked: 161 times Dream Kudos: 9075 Expert In: VB, VB.Net, C#, SQL, ASP, ASP.Net, Web Development, HTML, CSS, Win32 API, Javascript, mySQL, J#, Boo.Net My Contributions	If it were me I would go with the batch file as you can call a batch file from within code using the System.Diagnostics.Process Namespace, but thats just my opinion
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