perl advanced question

[Robin]

Does anyone know how to start learning how to and or learn how to
start programming in perl a virus scanner or a firewall in perl?

Thanks,
-Robin

 

[Robin]

It would be extremely difficult to write a firewall in Perl. You need to
get into the OS' network stack at a very low level, and that isn't easy
in Perl. A virus scanner basically just looks for known patterns in
files, but writing the scanner isn't the hard part: the hard part is
working out which patterns match viruses.

Ben

thanks for the suggestion.
-Robin