Project Aquatone

[Kulverstukas]

Indeed Delphi is nice. Borland Delphi 7 is still the shit Embarcadero 2010 is also nice, but Delphi7 seems faster to me and more lightweight.

[Huntondoom]

Developing a more serious virus, you cannot rely on what people _should_ have installed in order for the malware to run. Unless you are targeting a very specific module, but that's another story.
My point is, if you are creating something that you will later have to get data from without end-user knowing and you won't have complete control over it, you cannot rely on "if" factors. It needs to be solid. And .NET, Java or anything else that takes up vital organs in an executable does not qualify as solid.
But you probably all know that already.

just code in C, with CodeBlocks? or something like that, then you dont have the .net reference applied on standard

Edit: you can remove the .net reference out of your visual studio project, but its a bit of a hassel

[Zesh]

Could I get replies 11-16 deleted? As they're not on-topic. I'm not sure where the talk of .NET even came from, I'm using VB6 so there is no .NET framework crap to deal with.

Update: I've been working on the Settings tab, getting that boring stuff out that way and upgrading a few of the current features. The screenshot feature now allows you to capture either the full screen or the current active window. I've ditched the one log file for log files for each day and some other little things. I'll get some screenshots up later

[bubzuru]

Indeed Delphi is nice. Borland Delphi 7 is still the shit Embarcadero 2010 is also nice, but Delphi7 seems faster to me and more lightweight.

Delphi 7 is more lightweight but RAD Studio 2009 is the best imo , i hate 2010 (unicode)

back on topic
  you made any more updates yet, how are you uploading your logs ? is it local ? or remote ?

[EmilKXZ]

Developing a more serious virus, you cannot rely on what people _should_ have installed in order for the malware to run. Unless you are targeting a very specific module, but that's another story.
My point is, if you are creating something that you will later have to get data from without end-user knowing and you won't have complete control over it, you cannot rely on "if" factors. It needs to be solid. And .NET, Java or anything else that takes up vital organs in an executable does not qualify as solid.
But you probably all know that already.

Exactly. Precisely my point. If you are going to rely on "ifs" your entire success expectations are flawed and you should rather think "I would have secured my success IF I had been coding for a broader audience", such as native code that runs without any frameworks at all!

Indeed Delphi is nice. Borland Delphi 7 is still the shit Embarcadero 2010 is also nice, but Delphi7 seems faster to me and more lightweight.

I have been following Delphi since Delphi 2 (1996, a real jewel). Delphi 7 Enterprise I have, and then I followed up with RAD Studio 2010 and XE2. Without going off topic, I agree with you here again, Delphi 7 is the most balanced one, sadly it's not anymore fully compatible with newer Windows versions, I had to downgrade compatibility with Vista (and of course went back to XP in a week or so) when there was no Windows 7. I once tried to give a test-drive to Kylix 3, but I just can't be bothered to install it.