Bryce Boe

The Adventures of a UCSB Computer Science Ph.D. Student

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Month: September, 2010

Properly Handling the Keyboard Interrupt Exception (SIGINT) within a Python C Module

14 September, 2010 (23:54) | General | By: Bryce Boe

Recently I’ve done a lot of work requiring heavy computation on large datasets. While python is not a great choice for speed, it can be extended by modules written in C for those speed critical moments. For such moments I always try to find solutions written as C modules. This approach works very well save [...]

Submitting Binaries to VirusTotal

1 September, 2010 (01:12) | General | By: Bryce Boe

VirusTotal is a web service that essentially performs a virus scan of an uploaded file, or url against many of the top virus scanners (see full list). I recently needed to submit over 100 binaries to VirusTotal, and being a computer scientist I knew this task, like many other things I do, could be perfectly [...]