Can the Sony PSP be attacked by viruses while online?
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leo shambare
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Yes that's true. Security experts at Symantec Corp. say they have found the first Trojan virus that targets Sony Playstation Portable systems. It has been name 'Trojan.PSPBrick' and has been rated by Symantec's lowest threat rating — Category 1 on a scale of five. This Trojan horse deletes critical system files on a Playstation Portable device, preventing the device from restarting correctly. It does this by exploiting the Sony PSP Photo Viewer TIFF Image Handling Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. A detailed information on this trojan can be found at http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.pspbrick.html
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Possibly. It depends on what you're doing. It's highly unlikely that you'll catch a virus while playing an online game. That could only happen if something really big went wrong. However, if you're using a browser to surf the Internet, it's conceivable that a site could use a possible problem on the PSP (such as a buffer overflow) to install unwanted software such as a virus on your console. However, it should be noted that this is purely theoretical, and as of now, no such case is known. The trojan mentioned in the other post can't install itself, so as long as you don't download anything onto your PSP, you should be save.
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