TechRadar welcomes Chris Boyd, Director of Research for FaceTime Security Labs , as guest columnist. A few days ago, I received a call from a friend in a bit of a state of distress – all I could get out of him was that his PlayStation 3 was “infected with a virus” and he couldn’t get rid of the warning the console kept throwing at him. To me, this was extremely interesting – I don’t recall ever seeing a genuine, honest to goodness virus capable of attacking the PS3, and security applications for the console go as far as blocking rogue websites – there are currently no virus scans, because there are no viruses. However, my friend was insistent that I check his console out, so off I went with a camera and a healthy dose of scepticism. At least, I would have done if he didn’t live in Australia. I had to settle for a long, drawn out description of the problem and it took a while to pin it down. Let me go off on a tangent for a moment – don’t worry, it’ll all make sense shortly… Rogue anti-spyware websites Rogue anti-spyware websites are great, aren’t they? Websites claiming you’re infected with all sorts of nasties, with the intention of having you buy a (fake) security product that doesn’t actually do anything….

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Guest column: don’t fall for PS3 virus alerts

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