How to make an anti virus using c#. Do I need to learn to make viruses for that.?

hm...you need to learn how to write stable code. an antivirus can be written in any language. %26lt;assembler, c,c++, c# VB%26gt;

however, to write an antivirus, you need to know how viruses behave, type of viruses, their characteristics. that'sd why IT has internet security field.

How to make an anti virus using c#. Do I need to learn to make viruses for that.?live update

You would have to have a huge knowledge of viruses... so that you could detect when a certain file is and isn't a virus... to do this you would have to know which files may contain viruses.. and then know exactly how to get rid of them. If you can't get rid of it manually, then you can't make a program get rid of it. ;) Take a look at nortan's virus lists... they are very extensive!

How to make an anti virus using c#. Do I need to learn to make viruses for that.?norten

making an anti virus requires a full team of people... and they are all specialists in programming and testing new solutions.. so.. try something more easier.
you are proceeding with a very difficult task. The programming of the antivirus GUI shouldn't be too hard, but getting the definitions of hundreds of thousands of virus' is a very daunting task. I suggest you program it to download off the AVG update servers. And to answer the original question, no