Making a Sircam virus-remover in Python

Hans Nowak hnowak at cuci.nl
Wed Jul 25 08:30:15 EDT 2001


>===== Original Message From "Morten W. Petersen" <morten at thingamy.net> =====
>Hia guys,
>
>I was wondering if it would be hard to remove the Sircam virus using
>Python; that is, to change the attribution of some files, edit and delete
>some entries in the windows registry and then reboot;  could someone point
>me in the direction of the proper module to edit the Windows registry?

Sure, use the _winreg module that is available since 2.0:

  http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module--winreg.html

HTH,

--Hans Nowak





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