Self Destruct Code

[Steve]

Does anyone have any ideas on how to write self-destruct code?

I need to run a one-time procedure the next time a database opens. If the
procedure is successful, the procedure needs to be deleted and the code that
initiated the procedure needs to delete itself.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Steve

 

[Marshall Barton]

Does anyone have any ideas on how to write self-destruct code?

I need to run a one-time procedure the next time a database opens. If the
procedure is successful, the procedure needs to be deleted and the code that
initiated the procedure needs to delete itself.

"Self destruct" code is not a good idea! Changing a code
module is a design time operation, which should not be
performed at run time.

Whatever the one time code does must leave some kind of
tracks behind itself. You can add code to test for the
tracks and skip running the one time procedure if it has
already run.

 

[Salad]

Does anyone have any ideas on how to write self-destruct code?

Yes.

 

[Thilo Immel]

Steve,

Does anyone have any ideas on how to write self-destruct code?

I need to run a one-time procedure the next time a database opens. If the
procedure is successful, the procedure needs to be deleted and the code that
initiated the procedure needs to delete itself.

Are you writing some malware that you have to delete the code after it
has run one time?

Thilo Immel

 

[Salad]

Steve,




Are you writing some malware that you have to delete the code after it
has run one time?

Sounds like it. Why give someone like knowledge.

 

[Steve]

So, do you want to share your ideas?

Yes.

 

[Steve]

Not at all!!!

It's for a one-time cleanup of data in a database.

Steve

 

[Rick Brandt]

Not at all!!!

It's for a one-time cleanup of data in a database.

Steve

Just create a one field table with a Yes/No field indicating whether the
one-time code has run. Test it at the beginning of the code and set it to True
at the end. There is no need to "destroy" the code.

 

[Salad]

Not at all!!!

It's for a one-time cleanup of data in a database.

That's what I had some concerns about...giving you a method to do a "one
time cleanup" of data. I know people that wouldn't mind if some virus
writers were castrated, had their hands cut off, or simply had a bullet
fired into their brains.

We don't know you. Your request is odd and raises red flags.

 

[Salad]

So, do you want to share your ideas?

Without more information, never.

 

[tina]

if he were, would you really expect him to admit it? <g>

 

[Randy Harris]

That's what I had some concerns about...giving you a method to do a "one
time cleanup" of data. I know people that wouldn't mind if some virus
writers were castrated, had their hands cut off, or simply had a bullet
fired into their brains.

Do we have to limit it to just one choice?

 

[OM]

You could probably wire up a relay that was activated by the end of the
code, that set of a lump of C4 or Semtex. That would "self destroy" the
code.

Rob

 

[rkc]

That's what I had some concerns about...giving you a method to do a "one
time cleanup" of data. I know people that wouldn't mind if some virus
writers were castrated, had their hands cut off, or simply had a bullet
fired into their brains.

We don't know you. Your request is odd and raises red flags.

Isn't the op just PC Datasheet without the advertising?

 

[MikeB]

Not at all!!!

It's for a one-time cleanup of data in a database.

Write it in VBScript and call it from your app using the Shell function. The VBScript can self destruct
upon completion.

 

[Steve]

Are you related to Don Mellon? Seems the two of you are cut from the same mold!

 

[Steve]

Thanks, Mike, but I still then have the Shell code remaining.

 

[Steve]

Is this one of those Al Quida solutions?

You could probably wire up a relay that was activated by the end of the
code, that set of a lump of C4 or Semtex. That would "self destroy" the
code.

Rob

 

[Steve]

That's right!

And Salad is either a close relative of Don Mellon or someone with the brain of
a cabbage patch doll.

Steve

 

[Tony Toews]

Are you related to Don Mellon? Seems the two of you are cut from the same mold!

Not from what I've seen.

Tony
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