biggest bullsh*t ever?? (MP3 virus)

[Slaugh 10+ year member]

i was talking to this guy when i heard this (conversation was translated from portuguese so it may be inaccurate, so just don't ***** about it)

[19:55] TROCO PROCESSADOR ALPINE POR ECLIPSE: did you do that versatile link?

[19:55] Slaugh =[: What?

[19:55] Slaugh =[: no

[19:55] Slaugh =[: wtf is this?

[19:55] TROCO PROCESSADOR ALPINE POR ECLIPSE: program you download on alpine website and save it to a cd

[19:56] Slaugh =[: you mean I Personalize?

[19:56] Slaugh =[: no way

[19:56] Slaugh =[: why if i have everything here on the head unit?

[19:56] TROCO PROCESSADOR ALPINE POR ECLIPSE: lol

[19:57] TROCO PROCESSADOR ALPINE POR ECLIPSE: ipersonalize ehehehe

[19:57] Slaugh =[: useless crap

[19:57] Slaugh =[: but why did you ask?

[19:57] TROCO PROCESSADOR ALPINE POR ECLIPSE: because you could have entered a virus on your cdc

[19:57] Slaugh =[: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[19:57] Slaugh =[: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[19:58] TROCO PROCESSADOR ALPINE POR ECLIPSE: it's serious

[19:58] TROCO PROCESSADOR ALPINE POR ECLIPSE: mp3 virus

[19:58] Slaugh =[: AAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[19:58] Slaugh =[: what does the virus do? lol

[19:58] TROCO PROCESSADOR ALPINE POR ECLIPSE: crap the hu Bios just like of the computer...

[19:59] Slaugh =[: man WHERE the **** did you hear this?

[19:59] TROCO PROCESSADOR ALPINE POR ECLIPSE: dude

[19:59] TROCO PROCESSADOR ALPINE POR ECLIPSE: it's been posted everywhre

[19:59] Slaugh =[: send me the link to one place

[20:00] TROCO PROCESSADOR ALPINE POR ECLIPSE: it's not here

[20:00] TROCO PROCESSADOR ALPINE POR ECLIPSE: it's in the other pc

[20:00] Slaugh =[: i wanna read about this... you swear you're not kiddin right?

[20:01] TROCO PROCESSADOR ALPINE POR ECLIPSE: no dude, it's serious

[20:01] TROCO PROCESSADOR ALPINE POR ECLIPSE: thanks god my hu doesn't read mp3

is it real?

i'm worried //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

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[kuijo 10+ year member]

ya, i'm not so worried. i'm pretty sure only programs can have virus planted in them. like .exes and such, they were working on getting them in pictures, but its near impossible.

 

[danteBirosel 5,000+ posts]

That's why theres insurance and warranty...

 

[kuijo 10+ year member]

that and the mp3 file would need to be significantly bigger, like over twice as big. i'm sure ud notice something like that. and i don't think cd players can execute commands it just plays what it can read.

 

[BassAddictJ 5,000+ posts]

i call bullshit........

ya not a chance man

only mp3 you have to worry about is the 64kbps mp3 that crackles so bad it blows ur front stage..........

 

[T3mpest 10+ year member]

yup cant' put an virus into an MP3, that's what I was always told anway.

 

[Slaugh 10+ year member]

well but think

alpine 9815 has the ipersonalize... can somehow they make a mp3 that alpine tries to read as it screws something in the player maybe lol?

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

although im not sure if its possible to make a malitious (although im not sure) mp3 file. the fact that it would hurt your HU is questionable. i would think they would have to enginere it different for each manufacturer

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

im pretty sure anything is possible my friends.

in fact. i bet it is possible. in fact, i know its possible //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

my friend played an mp3 once on his computer, and it was encoded with some kind of script that deleted ALL the file associations from his copmuter that had to do with any media file. all .wav\.jpg\.gif\.mpg\.mov\.mp3\.mpeg\.jpeg\.bmp\ect were erased from the file, and you had to eaither rename it with the correct extension. we ended up having to reformat his harddrive because it screwed everything up. and the file actually played a song too, and he noticed that his screen flashed and his computer lagged when the song was openend. and he called me right away when all of his mp3's were "gone".

its definatly possible to link a script or somthing into a media file. it may not be easy, but its POSSIBLE

 

[Insomniac119 10+ year member]

im pretty sure anything is possible my friends.
in fact. i bet it is possible. in fact, i know its possible //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

my friend played an mp3 once on his computer, and it was encoded with some kind of script that deleted ALL the file associations from his copmuter that had to do with any media file. all .wav\.jpg\.gif\.mpg\.mov\.mp3\.mpeg\.jpeg\.bmp\ect were erased from the file, and you had to eaither rename it with the correct extension. we ended up having to reformat his harddrive because it screwed everything up. and the file actually played a song too, and he noticed that his screen flashed and his computer lagged when the song was openend. and he called me right away when all of his mp3's were "gone".

its definatly possible to link a script or somthing into a media file. it may not be easy, but its POSSIBLE

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/mad.gif.c18f003ab0ef8a0d9c27ca78d77a6392.gif I'd be so pissed off if that happoned to me. It's just stupid that somebody has to go and do that to other peoples computers, it makes me want to smash stuff with a baseball bat.

 

[Patrick Simmons 10+ year member]

I've been doing internet security for a fortune 500 company for a couple years (as a side gig) and I know this is not possible. Only car pc's would be open to this like iMobilepc and some of the others but it wouldn't be in an mp3 it would be in some type of executable file. Just my 2 cents.

 

[Patrick Simmons 10+ year member]

im pretty sure anything is possible my friends.
in fact. i bet it is possible. in fact, i know its possible //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

my friend played an mp3 once on his computer, and it was encoded with some kind of script that deleted ALL the file associations from his copmuter that had to do with any media file. all .wav\.jpg\.gif\.mpg\.mov\.mp3\.mpeg\.jpeg\.bmp\ect were erased from the file, and you had to eaither rename it with the correct extension. we ended up having to reformat his harddrive because it screwed everything up. and the file actually played a song too, and he noticed that his screen flashed and his computer lagged when the song was openend. and he called me right away when all of his mp3's were "gone".

its definatly possible to link a script or somthing into a media file. it may not be easy, but its POSSIBLE

it was probably bundled within the download/install script not the actual mp3 itself.

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

na dude.

he downloaded the mp3

it was raw mp3 format.

he loaded it in winamp, and shit went crazy. dont go telling me what it is or isnt. im a computer guy too. thats what happeend. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/mad.gif.c18f003ab0ef8a0d9c27ca78d77a6392.gif

 

[Patrick Simmons 10+ year member]

I'm not going to argue about it but back to the main question, imo it is not possible with regular head units. Most viruses have to have a "real" operating system to work and a regular hu doesn't have it. That is all.