[TrunkCom] Radio Scanner Virus

[Brian J Cathcart]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 16:48:04 -0400 (EDT) Jeff Kenyon <at649 at tcnet.org>
writes:
> Well, the next question would be can some scanners get viruses from 
> say files that have frequencies and/or talkgroups that one would have
on 
> a computer?

NO.  A scanner is not a computer and does not have an operating system to
run malicious programs in.  If the scanner receives data that does not
match what it's supposed to receive it will discard it.

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