virus

[-Nick-]

Hello, so I just transferring some file to my Windows 10 to a kinder fire so my brother could play games.
He got a virus some how but could it be because I transferred the file.

One more thing to so you download Minecraft maps are the download online or in the app?
Could you get a virus by download things online in a app?

 

[MasterXD34]

Hello, so I just transferring some file to my Windows 10 to a kinder fire so my brother could play games.
He got a virus some how but could it be because I transferred the file.

One more thing to so you download Minecraft maps are the download online or in the app?
Could you get a virus by download things online in a app?

I assume that this Kindle Fire runs Android? Right?

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[smileyhead]

What makes you think it's a virus? What's happening?
Did you install something before it started happening? Maybe it was a game you downloaded from a shady site that really was a virus disguising itself, or a virus injected into a game.

 

[jack44556677]

It's probably unlikely (depending on what you copied, and WHERE you got it from), but it is not impossible. There is no security in this world, and even abstinence will not keep you safe from the viruses.

You could get a virus from downloading something from the online system, but this is also remote.possibility and would mean that the app you installed had been modified to download from other servers than official ones (or some sort of in-transit injection) in order to circumvent local virus protections.

 

[Mollycule]

For starters, android 4.x is full of holes, wouldn't be surprised that there are ways to exploit it that are being used on mass by bots.