Viruses for PSP

[bullhead]

I am interested in running a brick on my firmware 1.5. (devhook obviously) I would like to see what happens.

I wonder is it possible to emulate a brick/recovery through devhook?

[Accordion]

there is a video of it somewhere. it would save you the (risky) trouble…

[NoQuarter]

Risky,but interesting line of thought.

[bullhead]

Do you think that even with emulated firmware 1.5, my psp is at risk?

What im trying to do is see how far I can push editing my firmware without bricking and find out what causes the brick occurring.

Earlier for example, I discovered that replacing the monthly bmp images with others which had a lot of colour causes a corruption in the settings icons(makes them go white)

Also a dodgy gameboot can brick.

Im just curious to see what happens after I run a trojan brick by looking at the devhook flash1/flash0 files to see what has changed.

What it comes down to is this... im very.....very bored.

[Accordion]

i dont think anthting special changes…a bricker just deletes or corrupts some flash files


i think the IPL checks everything when you boot up, if something is wrong then the psp will not boot
im guessing that if you delete a file that is needed early in the chain of events of startup then the psp will be worse off.
if you delete the IPL then it cant get much worse

[bullhead]

So does anyone know if it is possible to emulate the trojan brick that was released ages ago or any other program that does it. Im just trying to figure out how easy it can be to brick a psp, and if its as difficult as im finding it, then some people must be very unlucky.

[Tinnus]

you cannot brick your psp via homebrew the only way you can brick it is if your flash something to it like a different gameboot

The only way to brick your PSP is writing to the flash, and any software could do that.

[Accordion]

hmm…
would it be possible for an image viewed through the psp web browser to run a bricking code…

[Tinnus]

If there is a security hole in the image code of the browser, yes

[JD/]

this is starting to sound scaary lol people might try brick PSP's on the net good ill only be using the net on my psp through devhook no bricks for me :P oh and that trojan bricker thing deletes the file that you need to restart your psp theres a nice video of it on you tube does anyone know the size of the overflow.tiff that bricks your psp or the h.bin?