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Posted by Zonk on Thursday October 06, 2005 @03:03PM from the watch-what-you-click dept.

Evangelion writes "PSP hackers beware! According to 1up.com today, Symantec has identified the first PSP Trojan in the wild. Known as Trojan.PSPBrick, it turns the PSP into, well, a brick. With buttons. Users have to download and install it themselves, and as a result it effectively breaks the PSP."

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Well then... (Score:4, Funny)

by PapaBoojum ( 232247 ) writes: on Thursday October 06, 2005 @03:05PM (#13733139)

...I would recommend users NOT download it.

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Who would be so silly... (Score:4, Funny)

by Zangief ( 461457 ) writes: on Thursday October 06, 2005 @03:08PM (#13733163) Homepage Journal

As to install a virus manually!

Hey, Microsoft just sent me a security update! Nifty!

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Anyone notice.... (Score:2, Funny)

by svtmunk ( 461967 ) writes: on Thursday October 06, 2005 @03:12PM (#13733192)

That the Symantec page continues to instruct how to recover Windows XP? How useful... with that key info, I'll have my PS2 back up and running in no time!

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Sweet! (Score:2, Funny)

by theantipop ( 803016 ) writes: on Thursday October 06, 2005 @03:18PM (#13733250)

I've been waiting for the upgraded version of my pet rock [wikipedia.org]. "Pet Brick, now with buttons!".

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Warning: this is a joke (Score:3, Funny)

by Iriel ( 810009 ) writes: on Thursday October 06, 2005 @03:20PM (#13733272) Homepage

Yeah, I heard about this. It was made by SONY and the file is called something like |\/|@d_1337_3|\/|ul873rz!.exe

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Father Jack's found a new pet. (Score:2, Funny)

by starakurva ( 453545 ) writes: on Thursday October 06, 2005 @03:48PM (#13733475)

I love my brick!

Aaaaaaaaah feckit!

Fed up with briiiiiick!

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Re:Another prime example... (Score:3, Funny)

by TetryonX ( 830121 ) writes: on Thursday October 06, 2005 @06:05PM (#13734791)

Since "Annoying Emo" isn't a valid moderation, the modder had no choice but to choose their closest relative, the common Troll.

Both are annoying and unwanted, it is however uncommon for the average Annoying Emo to live under bridges and attack children as they try to cross the bridge.

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Ahem (Score:2, Funny)

by Areeves ( 598018 ) writes: on Thursday October 06, 2005 @09:10PM (#13736020)

Torrent? .....anyone? oh wait...

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There's no support from SCEI (Score:2, Funny)

by Kusunose ( 768083 ) writes: on Friday October 07, 2005 @12:01PM (#13740150)

Accoding to impress [impress.co.jp] (sorry, in Japanese), SCEI has no intention to provide support for users whose PSP are broken due to this trojan horse, saying this happens only when they are using their PSP in an (unsupported|illegitimate|unauthorative) way.

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