Comments on: CAN YOUR MOBILE PHONE, IPOD, TV OR RADIO CATCH A VIRUS?

By: ashd

ashd — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:46:49 +0000

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By: Dunbar Pappy

Dunbar Pappy — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:07:36 +0000

Any breed of digital memory can be exploited; Mobile phones and iPods already have several.
As far as the radio, again if it has a digital memory, the day will come.

Now, to the TV: mine already has been taken over.
It seems that a show, scheduled for 1 hour has been commandeered by adware that takes up nearly half of that allotted time with ads for cave man insurance; hard on pills; magic weight loss pills; some guy who screams about oxyclean & my dirty laundry among other non-sense “buy now” trash, & on & on…

By: smmarrinan

smmarrinan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:37:57 +0000

There have been viruses that have hit cell phones.

I-Pod is not likely to get a virus although there have been a few.(See the first link below.)

As for a Normal TV and Radio I have never heard of them getting a virus.

The big thing to avoid when it comes to viruses is opening something that you are not expecting or not familiar with.

Hope it helps.

By: Da Man Wit Da Anserz

Da Man Wit Da Anserz — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:37:28 +0000

Yes. As long as a device has some sort of storage (flash, ROM, HDD) it can get a virus. But they will have to be very clever to write a virus for a TV. What will it do, change the language?

By: SadPanda

SadPanda — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:30:45 +0000

A virus requires a piece of technology to be able to run backround activities so radios and tvs are out. There is a few viruses for nokia smart phones i’m aware of and there are some for devices like the psp.

By: Taquila_Fairy

Taquila_Fairy — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:02:58 +0000

Probablies if you download sofware onto them?

By: Shane H

Shane H — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:01:38 +0000

If someone designs one.

A virus can sit on an iPod’s flash memory if you plug it into an affected computer… otherwise, not yet.