X-Box Virus?

I have a question for the virii creators of AO: Could there concievably be a virus created for X-Box? They never thought you could make a virus for Palm but someone did, so what about the X-Box?

It's built using a pentium chip if I remember correctly, therefore it has an assembly language that is 'known'. It also has a hard-drive. So theoretically, could you create a virus that screwed around with the game and/or console?

That'd actually be pretty funny if there was a virus that screwed up any X-Box. I personally wouldn't put it past microsoft to let this happen.

Anyways, just wondering on your thoughts.

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Originally posted by Stronzo
I have a question for the virii creators of AO: Could there concievably be a virus created for X-Box? They never thought you could make a virus for Palm but someone did, so what about the X-Box?

It's built using a pentium chip if I remember correctly, therefore it has an assembly language that is 'known'. It also has a hard-drive. So theoretically, could you create a virus that screwed around with the game and/or console?

That'd actually be pretty funny if there was a virus that screwed up any X-Box. I personally wouldn't put it past microsoft to let this happen.

Anyways, just wondering on your thoughts.

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I guess that it all depends on how m$ configure it. Although as you said i wouldn't put it past M$, but i guess that they are kinda relying on the x-box to get them into the console games market....so they might have put some thought into security.

Something I found rather amusing-






http://www.hardocp.com/new_img_01/oct/msxbox.html

You know sooner or later there is going to be an xbox virus made.
One of these days, someone will be getting bored and boom, there it is. Personally I think Microsoft was to stupid to put a decent security program on there to help stop the virii, but that is just my opinion. I'm not going to be doing any of the online gaming with the xbox so hopefully nothing will go to wrong with it, however if I am wrong, well then it just proves xbox is no better than any other microsoft product on the market today.

Yeah, i was wondering how you would actually receive the virus. For you have to be online to get it. If the virus would look for other online users and infect them...it wouldn't be a virus would it...Can anybody say WANK? (First worm) I mean...i don't think you'd download anything onto your XBox...would you?...(M$ might post up uploads, or demos or something...ideas?)

How to get the virus onto the Xbox.. easy... Demo Discs... like the ones you get on magazines.... someone could just slip it in there.... voila... get lots of suckers with that....

I swear computer magazines love sticking virus's on their cdz....
and for some strange reason, people think the magazine CDs are safe...


Note: I don't actually believe that the magazine producers put the virus's on the cds on purpose..... but the amount of times I've gotten a virus install stuff from those cds... its a conspiracy I tells ya...

I think you must be reading the wrong sort of magazines ;)
I buy a couple of games magazines here every month, and to my knowledge they have never contained a virus (mind you I always have my virus scanner active just in case).

But 'demo disks' and 'free software' are another matter ...

Don't really see how MS can stop some sort of virus getting onto the xbox - after all it has a hard drive & some sort of net connection.

there could already be virus's for the Xbox... manufactured by the game developers. if the game is detected to be pirated, it screws your Xbox over.. its another conspiracy!!! :c)

there's all these conspiracies going around right now...

I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't already hundreds of viruses ready to target the X-Box. :D

I would be completely amazed if there weren't already loads of viruses out there for the X-Box already. It's probably X-Box armageddon out there. ;) Since it's a Microsoft product, the only defense is prayer (and maybe forget the idea of ever putting that thing online).

I dont that it'd be as easy to write an xbox virus as all of you seem to be leading on...

Reason being is that operating system is so strange.

Most game consoles are practically real-time,
and its not like they boot off the hard-drive anyway.
Thats like saying that the playstations and 64's could have gotten
viruses in their memory cards from all those bad demo-disks.

If it only boots off the cd, without initializing anything on the harddrive that the cd doesnt ask for,
then there wouldnt be much point of a virus.

Its the same sort of thing as the fact that somebody should write a virus to target flash bios on common boards...
itd be devastating...
and yet no one does it...

I dont think there will be an xbox virus of any concern.
but that's just my opinion.

-8trak

I think the X-box will get a virus, not because it's another console game station, but because it's Microsoft. Sony and Nintendo have a pretty good hold the console gaming market, yet I don't see viruses for them anywhere, when in theory there could be. I think someone will do it just because hating microsoft is everyone's favorite past time. Admit it, you love to hate microsoft ;)

I would assume that M$ will only allow system changes (drivers, etc) through 'upgrade' discs, which would be licensed by them only, and the XBox would only recognize said discs...the multiplayer options in games would be regulated by the software developers in the same manner, i would think...i can't imagine that the hardware and software developers would not have thought of such possibilities. Just my thought...

The main reason I think there could be a virus is the same reason I've never purcahsed a ps1 game - mod chips / hacks for free games. Someone is going to hack the XBox for sure so that you can download games for free, and from that hack/free games I'm sure someone will be able to instal a virus of some sort. What it will do is anyones guess but I'm sure there will eventually be something that screws over the XBox. Like knightmb said, too many people hate MS to not do it.

inorder for anyone to make software for the device it would either have microsoft's seal, or have microsoft's software to develop the apps...
however that software to develop apps might be obtainable

i think that everything that come up and have been based on technology some guys have started to explore the system of that to find the "secrets" of it.