super computer challenge

hello,
my school is participating in the super computer challenge, the only problem is we do not have a good question.
i was hoping someone can give me a few good ideas that would be easy to model and play with.
looking for : network security, viruses, or anything in the computer science feild.
thank you.

 

Wouldn't that be akin to us doing your homework for you?

Here is a list on last year's entries that should give you, your classmates and teacher some ideas to work from

http://mode.lanl.k12.nm.us/view_proposals0708.php

 

haha well trust me we have been trying to find a simple yet complex and unique problem for awhile now but thank you for that link i have looked over them and see a couple interesting prjects

 

I did something like this in college where i demonstrated some cool hacks you can do to the windows registry to "customize" the windows interface. some of them were neat tricks to pull on friends like banning shutdowns and removing icons in My Computer. Stupid stuff like that.
i dunno how technical youre trying to get though.

 

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What is the meaning of life ...

What is the last number of PI ...

You need that kind of question ???

 

ummm lol these are all great questions,
but we were looking from something along the lines of networking and viruses,
how fast can a virus spread across a network, and what does it infect, lol
i wanted to create a virus and actually infect a pc.
but my teacher said that they wouldnt allow that becuase we might infect there network haha what kinda person would do that rolleyes

 

Think of the next level of computer security.

We have "firewalls" to protect our networks, SPAM filters to protect our mail, Anti-virus to protect our PC's.

The cell phone antivirus will be as common as the PC type very soon. The difficulty is only that there are so many different platforms for the handsets.....But they all use the same NETWORKS.

 

Definitely an A++ in my book Halo.:-D

 

thats a really good idea though. all youd need are a few spare computers and a switch. you could just make a small network not connected to your school network and you wouldnt have to worry about spreading your virus.

 

yeah i have explained how i would do it to them but they still wont allow it, although i really dont need there permission,
whateva whateva i do what i want lol.
but no i think i will use this, but the only problem is actually keeping track of the infection, what kind of virus would i use,
or maybe i can write a worm program that isnt harmful, or maybe just write a VB program or java to emulate the spread of a virus, but i still need to figure out how to emulate a network if i cant physicaly build one
:cool