From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2008-04-28T02:33:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby For Hackers

Luka Lukako wrote:
> Anybody know how to writing Keyloggers in ruby, or trojans or other
> viruses?

Well, I don't know much about that field of programming, but if I had to 
guess I'd say that Ruby seems ill-suited for these kinds of 
applications. I mean, it makes it hard to run code surreptitiously when 
the target computer has to have the Ruby interpreter, RubyGems, and 
half-a-dozen gems installed. What are you going to say when the target 
machine's actual owner asks you why he has to install all this stuff? 
"Oh, no reason. Don't worry about it. Pretty please?"

Also Ruby is, ah, not exactly a speed demon, is it? I'd think that when 
you want your virus to fire itself up and start sending spam you'd want 
it to run quickly, otherwise the target machine's actual owner might 
notice something's wrong.

All-in-all you're probably better off using some language more suited 
for malware. Like Perl, or Python. Yeah, that's it. Perl. Or Python. 
Either one.


> 
> P.S. please nybody have book for networking and sockets? (for coding in
> ruby)


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