Considering the fact that now everybody and their dog knows about his 300 IQ plan of bricking people's consoles and telling them about it beforehand, he's going to go down in history as the "exceptional" hacker who bricked zero Wii's, I'm not sure if that was his intention. His scheme might've worked somewhat if he didn't give us a Cartoon Network super villain speech. It's a laughable attempt, but still, it warranted a warning at least.
Not really - on both the original and the Lite only the first few blocks are protected in hardware, and only if you installed Flashme you have a minimal system fully fitting in the protected area...
You can google search their MD5 checksum, I've seen a few posts about it here already that state MD5 checksums to look out for.
I thought the checksum will be identical to the legit programs. At least that's what I read out of the speech.You can google search their MD5 checksum, I've seen a few posts about it here already that state MD5 checksums to look out for.
You can also do a quick look through an hex editor, the currently existing malware is so poorly done you can know all it does just by looking at the binary.
Absolutely not, checksums are different for every file.
A cursory read of his statement makes me think that the program he made will make small alterations to his malware that will result in a new and unique checksum for the app. That doesn't stop the user from opening the file before installing or launching it to look at the contents though, so again, it's very nice of him to announce his malicious intentions.
That's correct.
True.
Do you think only the Wii is affected?
This specific case directly affects the Wii U's vWii as well, but such malware has been a long term issue, mainly on nintendo's portables.
I'm not entirely sure why I'm supposed to be bothered by that. I don't care about how he feels or whether he's happy or not, that doesn't affect me in any way. This entire thread consists of people (rightfully) dunking on him - maybe he's into getting embarrassed in public, that's none of my business.
The PSA was consulted with the rest of the team. Our responsibility is to *this* community - I don't care what happens outside of it. If he gets his jollies for getting clowned on by thousands of people who are laughing at his pitiful stunt, that's his deal. My deal is protecting users of this site from potentially malicious software that he threatened to upload here. I'm not going to be pushed around by a script kiddie with nothing better to do, I don't care what he wants, I'm just telling people to exercise caution when it's warranted - there's nothing wrong with that.
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