First PSP “Virus” Discovered
Symantec announced on October 6th that they had discovered the first “virus” for PSP. I put virus in quotes because technically the malicious program is a trojan horse. This simply means you have to download and run the beast to have it cause any problems. If you do run it, however, it will delete critical system files, rendering your PSP useless.
The evil program, named Trojan.PSPBrick by Symantec, is advertised as being a hack to modify the PSP’s firmware to allow you to play pirated games. As such, if you destroy your PSP using this technique, Sony has said they will not be covering the damage under warranty (not a big surprise).
So, bottom line is, don’t download strange files claiming to hack your PSP. Especially if they don’t come from a source you consider reputable.
Uhh, just in case you already “brick-ified” your PSP:
More info at Games Digest.
