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Can vita get a virus ?


Tomoko Kuroki

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Dude, seriously.

 

Porn on the Vita is the fucking worst. I tried it a couple of times and no videos would work, I basically had to decide between a still frame that took a full minute to load, or some god awful PG rated lesbian scenes on YouTube. Everything was horrible. I was like, man fuck this shit, I'm just gonna go grab my phone or something. Horrible.

 

I like how the PSP's god awful browser at least had the excuse of being from 2004, what's your excuse, eighth gen portable console?

Dude... Vita is a handheld console while smartphone (if you mean that) purpose is for web browsing and other basic stuff

also just cause smartphone can play F2P games doesn't mean it can play high end games either.

 

Why do you think some games on Vita have to disable network features lol

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Dude, seriously.

 

Porn on the Vita is the fucking worst. I tried it a couple of times and no videos would work, I basically had to decide between a still frame that took a full minute to load, or some god awful PG rated lesbian scenes on YouTube. Everything was horrible. I was like, man fuck this shit, I'm just gonna go grab my phone or something. Horrible.

 

I like how the PSP's god awful browser at least had the excuse of being from 2004, what's your excuse, eighth gen portable console?

Why bother doing that way, surf *redacted* without spaces, download whatever you want and use the video app to play it when you need to. Also works on the mobiles and whatever.

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Technically it could have one made for it, but few will bother. They'd rather use that time to hack a business server. They'd get more for less.

Linux is considered to not be able to get virus's, but it can, it's just !extremely! rare, and I recommend to take a picture if it happens, because you would have just became famous. :)

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Ok, I have some questions about this. 

How likely is this to happpen? 

Is it possible for the vita to get the blue, whatever screen of death?

Thats all my questions, I just want a yes or no answer and mabye an explanation

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No way, it would have to be created specifically for the Vita OS. There are not many Vita apps in general, let alone viruses. Can anyone even just make a Vita app if they wanted to? I'm pretty sure you have to go through Sony. The Vita AFAIK hasn't even been hacked yet if it ever will be, there are no viruses on it I guarantee you. Now if you go to a phishing website and start entering your email, password, credit card #, w/e on the Vita web browser...thats different and not a virus. 

 

Ok, I have some questions about this. 

How likely is this to happpen? 

Is it possible for the vita to get the blue, whatever screen of death?

Thats all my questions, I just want a yes or no answer and mabye an explanation

No BSOD is specifically a Windows thing. Thats like if a PS3 got the RROD, someone specifically programs all the unique...uh meltdown errors for particular operating systems. 

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Linux is considered to not be able to get virus's, but it can, it's just !extremely! rare, and I recommend to take a picture if it happens, because you would have just became famous. :)

 

Well... I would not want this fame. Because on Linux you must chmod rwx the file first, before it is even executeable...

But I dont think Linux is more secure than Windows just because of that. I mean, when the people would not use permanently the Admin-account on Windows it would be basicly the same. And even when you are on admin-account, you must click the UAC first (When you are not on admin-account the UAC wants the admin-password before you can click.). Also, even when you are not on an admin-account, the malicious software just must find a way to manipulate the antivirussoftware to gain root-permissions, because antivirussoftware is ALWAYS executed as Administrator. And nowadays, there is malicious software that likes it to attack routers... and guess what... most routers are running with Linux :P

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Well... I would not want this fame. Because on Linux you must chmod rwx the file first, before it is even executeable...

But I dont think Linux is more secure than Windows just because of that. I mean, when the people would not use permanently the Admin-account on Windows it would be basicly the same. And even when you are on admin-account, you must click the UAC first (When you are not on admin-account the UAC wants the admin-password before you can click.). Also, even when you are not on an admin-account, the malicious software just must find a way to manipulate the antivirussoftware to gain root-permissions, because antivirussoftware is ALWAYS executed as Administrator. And nowadays, there is malicious software that likes it to attack routers... and guess what... most routers are running with Linux :P

I think you went off on a tangent a bit with the antivirus sense no Linux distro requires any protection software. :/

And if you chmod the payload and execute then ya that'll do it. Ya some routers firmware are being effected(and not patched fast enough imo), but they carry the same hw, which differs(ok same basic hw in a sense) from regular computers, and also less complex firmware(thus why we call it firmware and not a full OS) making it easier as well. I disagree that superuser access and administrative access is the same. As even without administrative access you have access to a lot more exploits that Windows can't change due to the nature of how it was built. And you also left the biggest problem with Windows which is the registry, and imo is it's greatest exploitable feature. (now I've gone on a tangent :blink: lol) I wrote this when I woke up so excuse any errors. But we agree anything can have a malicious program on it, it's how they do it that differs greatly.

I claim not to be an expert on exploits though as it gets pretty deep really damn fast.

To answer the OPs follow up question, I'd say it's much harder to get a virus/etc on a psvita than most things. And like others said, there's nothing worthwhile in doing so. Too much work. :)

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Why bother doing that way, surf [REDACTED] without spaces, download whatever you want and use the video app to play it when you need to. Also works on the mobiles and whatever.

thank you, this has proven invaluable  :wub:

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thank you, this has proven invaluable  :wub:

WHAT A NECRO LMAO

 

Would be kind of you if you could remove the link from your quote like I removed from my post. Last year I still didn't create the rule number 9 for links or discussion about pornographic material, so it was okay to post that, even though nowadays isn't, hahaha.

 

Also, I've evolved from that link which gave errors upon errors on the vita. PM me if you want the updated link, ignore this if you don't care.

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I mean, I myself could brick your console only using a website, someone with greater skills could probably extract information from your cookies and such but I doubt anyone would focus on making this a live project. It is not worth it, it will take a shit ton of hours and it won't get you almost anything in return.

 

The risk of what you clicked being a vita "virus" is absolutely 0. Don't worry bud :)

 

EDIT: Unless it was purely focused on the web-kit, then there is a possibility of any extraction or injection in the web browser itself. I recommend that you don't worry about it tho...

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