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Can a memory card get a virus?

Billyjj

Billyjj

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My psp 4Gb memory card stopped working and i took it back to the shop... I said to them it broke because its fake and they say it has got a virus... I'm like wtf how can a memory get a virus and brake it... sooo can a memory get a virus?
 
i guess, because mine was virused too. i used the anti-virus program and scanned it, found like three trojan viruses. but not much of a deal just format the memory card and it's good as new. that's what i did. :-D
 
its always been my opinion that "viruses" were engenerd to be possible by windows. IE if you use linux apple etc there is no SUCH thing as a virus. If you use windows to load your MS its possible. But its more then unlikely that the viruss could do much to the psp alone. It should only effect your pc imho. Your psp shouldnt be able to even run a viruss.
Some programing libs that are used with homebrew DO cause false positives on virus scanns. My guess is what ever was picked up had more to do with that then viruses.
 
My memory doesn't even work it just flashes on my psp and i tried it on my phone and still nothing.
It could be a fake because it said Magicgate: unknown ?:-(

Im saying can the actual memory card get a virus and make it so it wont work.
 
no, the actual memory card cannot get a virus. You just had a bad card.
 
either that or a corrupt FAT table

try putting your PSP on USB Mode then in ms dos type the following

chkdsk /f i:

Presuming i: is the drive letter of your PSP, after that format it in the PSP, Should go back to brand new! :D
 
Darkchild said:
either that or a corrupt FAT table

try putting your PSP on USB Mode then in ms dos type the following

chkdsk /f i:

Presuming i: is the drive letter of your PSP, after that format it in the PSP, Should go back to brand new! :D
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I took it back to the shop and they said they'll fix it or give me a new one, since it has 5 years guarantee
 
Darkchild said:
either that or a corrupt FAT table

try putting your PSP on USB Mode then in ms dos type the following

chkdsk /f i:

Presuming i: is the drive letter of your PSP, after that format it in the PSP, Should go back to brand new! :D
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Does that actually work? coz i think i bricked my 4 gig memstick. :crying:
I want to reset it.
 
Billyjj said:
My psp 4Gb memory card stopped working and i took it back to the shop... I said to them it broke because its fake and they say it has got a virus... I'm like wtf how can a memory get a virus and brake it... sooo can a memory get a virus?
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If you connect your PSP (via usb or wlan) to an infected Windows box, the virus(es) in the PC may write themselves to the memstick in the PSP. It won't hurt the PSP (since it isn't an x86 running Windows), but when you later connect your PSP to another Windows box, it could then spread the virus. It's one way viruses spread (the oldest way in fact... via removable media, where the original method used files on floppies to spread).

That's why even though linux and MacOS have next to no viruses, they still make virus checkers (a nice free one is ClamAV). They're mostly checking for WINDOWS viruses so that they don't act as a carrier. A carrier is someone (or something) that is not affected by the virus, but spreads it to others. The PSP, with USB and WLAN built in, can be a PRIME carrier for Windows viruses.

So if they found a virus on your psp memstick, SCAN YOUR PC FOR VIRUSES!! Your Windows box is probably infected... :crying:
 
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