[TrunkCom] Radio Scanner Virus

[Jeff Kenyon]

Well, I konw that sometimes when I send something to the Pro-96 from the
computer that I have edited, the folder or bank freezes up if I have made
a mistake, but clearing and erasing the bank/folder and starting over from
scratch does the trick.





On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Brian J Cathcart wrote:

> 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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