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This is a keylogger worm virus for Windows computers. This was packaged into an executable file using PyInstaller. To run it, copy the
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files start.bat and loveMachine.exe and run start.bat
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After every 1000 characters typed on the computer, the virus copies itself to a random location on the hard drive and deletes older copies.
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It also sends an email to the email address specified with the content being the letters typed and the subject being the computer ID it
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was sent from.
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After every 1000 characters typed on the computer, the virus copies itself to a random location on the hard
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drive and deletes older copies. It also sends an email to the email address specified with the content being
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the letters typed and the subject being the computer ID it was sent from.
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An issue I ran into while making this project is that Windows doesn't like it when a program deletes itself
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for obvious reasons. I got around this by chaining the instances of the program together so it deletes a process
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that ran before it rather than trying to delete itself.
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This virus doesn't have permancence and will stop running after your computer is shut down. It will run "silently" but you can end the PID
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task by the name of loveMachine.exe

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