2006-10-24 21:16:24 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
No, it won't harm your portable player, or a standalone DVD player either. These are hardware players - they don't contain a hard drive or writable data that a virus could infect. Unlike a cell phone which is essentially a very small computer with writable memory and an operating system for interpreting programs - DVD players don't work that way.
It's like you couldn't get a (computer) virus in your microwave oven.
A virus written to a DVD by accident on your PC would be designed to infect PCs. In the same way that data on a DVD that plays on a PC wouldn't work on a portable DVD player, neither will the virus. The portable player doesn't have any way of reading PC program data.
You're safe. I hope that answers your question. All the best.
2006-10-24 21:20:19 · answer #1 · answered by Alasdair P 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes you CAN transfer a virus from a movie burned onto disk to your dvd player. DVD players DO have software to decode the dvd files to play the movie. Original dvds (not copies) are just data files too. dvd players have to have not only software that can be attacked but firmware as well. Say you download a movie off the net and you don't scan it for viruses. And it has a virus. You then burn it to a blank dvd. Then you play that dvd in a dvd player. You've just released that virus to wreck havoc with the software or firmware. However, the chances the virus was written for dvd player software/firmware are very, very slim. Your chances of winning the state lottery are better than a virus actually damaging your player. good luck :-)
2006-10-24 22:08:44 · answer #2 · answered by Army Of Machines (Wi-Semper-Fi)! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
The virus written with some language needs to be run in the DVD player to infect. Fortunately DVD player reads only audio/video format and nothing else.
2006-10-24 21:20:22 · answer #3 · answered by Sanju_the_gr8 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am a developer at Microsoft so I know a thing or two about computers. The best PC cleaner and antivirus program is CCleaner, it's very light and it's the only antivirus/cleaner with a 99.99% detection rate.
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2014-08-15 12:14:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Virus can harm only software, they have no effect on hardware. Well, if you have got real living viruses, they could decompose your DVD player!!!( jst jokin)
2006-10-24 21:21:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
that would be quite impossible. a virus cannot get into a disc.
2006-10-24 21:28:14 · answer #6 · answered by j o s 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No your DVD player cannot get a virus............
2006-10-24 21:47:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no risk. but be careful in sharing the dvd with other people who use it on their computers.
2006-10-24 21:23:17 · answer #8 · answered by thomas 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i pretty sure they wont, the dvd player only plays movies, not programs.
2006-10-24 21:18:05 · answer #9 · answered by kruzito21 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes it is possable, not sure how but i have seen that happen. i also gave a freind a virus to his cell phone wierlessly by accedent and it died. its messed up what can happen these days with our electronics, kinda makes me worry.
2006-10-24 21:18:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋