chimpy Posted February 15, 2010 ID:200380 Share Posted February 15, 2010 I am going to be getting a Dsi soon and want to be able to use it to connect to the web, I have googled about possible infection as I am pretty sure you cannot get a adblocker or a script blocker for it let alone a AV, so I was wondering if anyone had one or knew a little about what the risks would be as its not cheap and I do not want to infect it.Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mad056 Posted February 17, 2010 ID:201314 Share Posted February 17, 2010 You cant infect a DSI Mad056 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimpy Posted February 17, 2010 Author ID:201612 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Thanks thats good to know as I will be using it mainly at Wi-fi spots for browsing just generally to pass the time and a few sites to read manga on that I know are fine but do have ads which I block on my computer but am not sure that the DSi blocks things like that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
unoriginal Posted February 18, 2010 ID:201758 Share Posted February 18, 2010 AFAIK, the Nintendo DS-i runs a proprietary operating system, so I doubt you can get infected. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimpy Posted February 20, 2010 Author ID:203101 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Thanks, I know its the Opera system it is using and I just wanted to make sure that if I went on a site that my AV would block or atleast detect a threat on it, that the DSi would be safe.I am not very techy minded so I am not sure what it is that would protect the DSi from the same virus that would harm a PC? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted February 21, 2010 ID:203519 Share Posted February 21, 2010 I am not very techy minded so I am not sure what it is that would protect the DSi from the same virus that would harm a PC?Well, it's the same thing that keeps a computer running Linux or Mac OS from being infected by a virus that would harm a PC. Different operating systems are generally not cross-compatible, meaning that software made to run on a certain OS most likely will not function on another OS. In this case, your PC runs Windows as its OS while the DSI uses its own proprietary OS. A virus that would infect a PC could literally be copied to your DSI, but it would have no effect on the DSI whatsoever because the virus couldn't run. It's the same reason you can't play a PC game on your DSI, only DSI games, PC software just isn't compatible with it (viruses/malware are nothing more than software themselves, albeit malicious software ). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimpy Posted February 22, 2010 Author ID:204132 Share Posted February 22, 2010 I understand now, Great then! I just hope that when I get it it works ok, I had heard that as a browser the DSi is not that great but as long as I can read my anime and look at FB I will be happy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGMurdockIII Posted March 4, 2010 ID:209688 Share Posted March 4, 2010 flock all the way Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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