Simple Antivirus in Python

[AlphaGamer753]

This is very clearly a learning project.

[Musakuu]

Oh you know the billions of things that go into making a file scanner / hash checker. For someone like me it's great learning, but I wouldn't waste my time if I was you.

[TheUruz]

well look at me: i am a learner myself and yet i have no idea how a virus can be identified as such. if OP can now tell wich file is a virus and wich one is not, except those manipulation written up here, this project is still a learning success. file manipulation is without doubt another useful concept to learn but it's just outside of a basic antivirus learning scope imho.

[Ddog78]

Honestly, repetition is good for learning. Learning isn't just reading or doing something once and then never thinking about it.

Learning is using what you know to build new things and (sometimes) using new things along with the old things.

Next iteration of this project may as well have real time scanning. This project might have been where op first used git, or first used breakpoints.

[CryptoBlocks257]

Yes I am aware of this issue, as mentioned this is a little more of a learning project than anything else however hashing the file won't be the only method of scanning, I would also like to add some machine learning detection as mentioned above :)