First PSP trojan

Post by **Ghegs** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:06 pm

http://smallbiz.symantec.com/avcenter/v ... brick.html

Another site

Apparently this trojan has been cloaked as a program to change the PSP's firmware from 2.0 to 1.5. Guess some hacker saw people downloading the genuine patch and created a fake version to screw them over.

So be careful on what you download, especially since this also voids your warranty at the same time.

Ord · Post by **Ord** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:18 pm

Scary stuff. I downgraded my PSP without any hassles, but it makes you wonder about the sad malignment cunts out there that would do this sort of thing in the first place. Like I said scary stuff!

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:47 pm

Maybe if Sony wasn't such tightwads and embraced the PSP's homebrew potenial, then we wouldn't have such problems.

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 8:27 pm

Hah! Maybe Sony made the Trojan.

Post by **system11** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:02 pm

CMoon wrote:Hah! Maybe Sony made the Trojan.

Kind of interesting - imagine a world where your PSP gets a virus just from walking near the wrong person on a train. Could become the ultimate way to launch viruses into the wild, untraceably.

Moogs · Post by **Moogs** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:39 pm

FatCobra wrote:Maybe if Sony wasn't such tightwads and embraced the PSP's homebrew potenial, then we wouldn't have such problems.

Maybe if Sony didn't insist on making the PSP everything except a video game console, then there wouldn't be such problems.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:10 am

I'd rather have firmware updates than having to buy new accessories or other systems.