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Trojan turns PSP into an expensive brick

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Old 10-08-2005
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Trojan turns PSP into an expensive brick

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PSP users are being urged to beware of a Trojan which, once executed, turns their games gizmo into little more than an expensive book weight. The (PlayStation Portable) PSP Brick Trojan poses as a utility that allows gamers to run homebrew apps or pirated games.
Read:http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/10/07/psp_trojan/

The question to be asked here is why. I mean, there's cyber vandalism which is pretty mindless, but this is even more mindless than that. I did'nt think it was possible to be a bigger {insert expletive} before this. Obviously I was wrong.
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Old 10-08-2005
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You should post this in the Games forum as well!
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