Can the Wii get a virus???

Possibly... though you have a better chance of getting shot and then winning the lottery on the same day. The thing with computer viruses, just like living viruses, is that they have to be "adapted to their environment", in this case the operating system. And close to all computer viruses are designed to target Windows.

Another problem is that the browser is unable to actually download anything to memory, which is how almost all viruses are "caught". So someone would have to find a hole in the browser, which is close to impossible since the Wii is a closed system. And then even if it could find its way on your system, it would have to find a way into the firmware in order to cause any permanent damage, which is also next to impossible.

Yesja95

Every operating system can be infected by viruses and, although the Wii SO is surely different from windows, I'm sure some lowlife already made a compatible virus. Need to be careful.

I agree. The only reason is to create havoc and see people squirm as their Wii's break down. Pathetic really.

i suppose it could, but i dont see a real point someone creating a virus for the wii, unless the like to cause havoc and maybe try and steal credit card info, but its still very hard to do, so it makes it unlikely monkeyd_93

That's the reason computer viruses were created in the first place.

Yes and no.

Viruses, worms, malware, and etc are all programs. Computers run programs. Therefore, yes.

Viruses are called viruses because they are written into an exisitng executable file. If it is not possible for such code to be written onto an executable file, the virus is limited to existing only in RAM and only lives until the RAM is flushed clean. Thus it is nothing more than malicious code.

Every system can get any malicious code. The trick is that the code must somehow get executed. Think how they got viruses in JPEG files. The code was in the picture, but they found a flaw in the JPEG codec that would eventually cause the CPU to run that code. There are even hardware flaws that can cause the code to be downloaded and ran.

But if the code is x86 machine code, it does not work in POWERPC machine code.

No. The Wii can't open or use .exe files so your safe to look at your porn.PlasmaBeam44

LOL! Nice.