I don't know why anybody is doubting that a virus could do this. Of course viruses delete data. As for why specifically an SD card, who knows? Maybe it couldn't achieve high enough privileges to delete anything from the HDD filesystem, but an unprotected FAT partition was easily accessible.
A virus just doesn't delete random data. It's programmed to delete certain data but not random Data so no it just doesn't work that way. If it did work that way meaning it has a fairly high AI making the decission for itself what to delete ( We're living in 2016 not the year 2040 or whatever...) Also the reason an antivirus can pick up and take counter measures for a certain virus since every virus has been programmed a way. If it would just act randomly then a virusscan wouldn't be able to pick it up and delete it. Also the same way how everything works in real life. If a new virus pops up we can find a cure for it because it acts a certain way and not randomly.
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Don't spread false information the only virus that really damaged your PC was CIH who "could", on specific systems, destroy your bios.
I didn't say it was random. Furthermore if you think that software doesn't have the ability to examine the environment it's running in and make decisions about how to operate then you seriously underestimate what software is capable of doing. Such decisions are made all the time by software and would definitely not be considered an amazing feat of AI these days.
As for viruses deleting data - of course that is how some of them operate. If you think there aren't viruses out there which are written specifically to destroy data then you are mistaken. I have personally experienced this on more than one platform.
...wow... you want to come to my house and spy me? btw that was on windows 7... and no joke it fried my motherboard... it could have been a virus made to spread on irc... you cant know
if they do then they start to attack every partition and not a single one since it doesn't have the AI to make that distinction. So his story is still bullshit since if it turned out to be so then the virus would already render his other partitions useless. It needs to be programmed in the particular virus to attack partitions unless it's programmed to attack only a specific folder. But software doesn't have the AI to make choices themselves. What you're saying about examening the environment is true but it still does so according to what has been written in the code. It just doesn't decide for itself LMAO according to that logic we would be witnessing TERMINATORS taking over.
You have misunderstood my explanation. 'Examining the environment' could be as simple as checking what disks are present, which are fixed and which are removable, what file systems they are using, what types of files they contain, what their permissions are etc., and then acting accordingly. Of course this is only according to how the virus was programmed, but do you really think there aren't viruses out there that are programmed to be capable of this kind of logic? How do you think they are capable of infecting a system if they are not programmed with sufficient logic to determine how to operate within a range of different systems? Yes the decisions made by software are restricted to what it has been programmed to be able to do, but software absolutely does make decisions about which of those functions to deploy under which circumstances. This kind of logic is the basis of computer programming these days.
I wouldn't be too incredulous if I were you. There are all kinds of viruses, designed to do all kinds of things. I've seen "viruses" which don't actually do anything harmful, and just self-propagate. A virus deleting data isn't that farfetched.
Entirely possible. Ransomware usually doesn't outright delete data - it's designed to hold your data hostage, after all, and a hostage is of very little use dead. However, it could have done something like marked every file on the SD Card as hidden and changed all of the extensions - an average user would see an empty SD Card, because Windows File Explorer doesn't show hidden files by default and the 3DS wouldn't "see" the arm9loaderhax.bin if it was suddenly arm9loaderhax.ubinhacked. Or "a virus deleted my files" could be shorthand for "I formatted my SD Card after a virus encrypted everything on it".
viruses can be programmed to do pretty much any number of bizarre actions i.e rename any file with *.jpg to *.trolololo, it could also just try to delete anything it has access to starting with the lowest hanging fruit......but tbh i think most viruses now are usually beyond the one hit "HACK THE PLANET!!!!" stage and are usually designed to be part of some bigger scheme, i.e botnet/bitcoin miners/data mining/ransom-ware basically most of the time if someone makes a virus that can get past anti-viruses they want to get more out of it than simply deleting someones SD card contents and opening a rick roll video when there is schemes that could be making them money instead
in this situation though i would suggest the OP goes and verifies his SD card is genuine as its more likely he just has a dodgy SD card that corrupted as he hit the real size limit
in this situation though i would suggest the OP goes and verifies his SD card is genuine as its more likely he just has a dodgy SD card that corrupted as he hit the real size limit
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most likely it moved your files on a blank folder.
fire up cmd, type "yourdrive:" then type: "cd\" then type: "attrib -s -h -r /s /d "
ex.
something like
look for a folder with a blank name. it should have your files
if it doesn't then it's GG
fire up cmd, type "yourdrive:" then type: "cd\" then type: "attrib -s -h -r /s /d "
ex.
something like
Code:
d:
cd\
attrib -s -h -r /s /dlook for a folder with a blank name. it should have your files
if it doesn't then it's GG
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Uh, what? Certain malware is designed to specifically target USB devices (which a card reader is considered as such) in order to spread autoinstallers. This just sounds like a shittily coded one. They certainly can determine specific volumes to attack, though.
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You should take your own advice. I did read, and what you said isn't true. Just because one thing got nuked doesn't mean that the entire system would be as well. Of course malware can be developed to determine what kind of device to target. What would really clear the OP, though, would be a sample of the malicious binary. Then I'd be able to tell you exactly what it does.
then you should def learn English because nowhere did i say that a Virus can't do that. I commented that a virus can't make a decision on it's own and starts attacking randomly without programming telling it to do something
I don't understand why it's so difficult to understand that a virus can be programmed to make exactly those kinds of decisions.
Because if it could then you saw Terminators running around. Why doesn't aids make decisions of it's own ? Because it ain't programmed to do
It just can't otherwise AIDS would rule the world instead of us
CIH is one from the 9x days that would corrupt/erase the bios and also corrupt/erase the harddrive. it could even work on an sd card theoretically.
Why is your pc unprotected, Put up the firewall and flameshields son! You need a fortress like Ganondorf has. To be honest i thouht it said the anti virus program deleted it, but it was not the case.Where is windows firewall or windows defender? Does your Router or ISP come with antivirus protection at all?
Or maybe next time if you left your SD card on your pc for too long, don't do it anymore. Use it only when needed.
Or maybe next time if you left your SD card on your pc for too long, don't do it anymore. Use it only when needed.
...lolwut. Alright, I'm done. Dumbest thing I've read all day.Because if it could then you saw Terminators running around. Why doesn't aids make decisions of it's own ? Because it ain't programmed to do
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