Can viruses damage hardware ?
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Note that viruses can't do any damage to hardware: they won't melt down your CPU, burn out your hard drive, cause your monitor to explode, etc. Warnings about viruses that will physically destroy your computer are usually hoaxes, not legitimate virus warnings. source[^]
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But I and some my friends miss our Keyboards with that Virus :(
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That's not a virus, it's a bug! :-D
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harold aptroot wrote:
did it really do that or did it just mess with the driver or something like that?
Actually it strongly damage the Keyboard, it has damaged my keyboard :( and some its keys broken I'm using my old keyboard right now.
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Hi. I've heard there are some viruses that damage to hardware like Keyboard ! Some of my friends have told , a virus has damaged to their Keyboard !!! Is it possible ?:confused: I've found it With NOD32: 3/11/2009 5:08:39 AM Real-time file system protection file ... Win32/Virut.NBM virus cleaned - quarantined NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Event occurred during an attempt to access the file by the application: C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE.
Yes, very. There was once a virus which would overwrite the data in the BIOS chip of the motherboard with just random junk, next time you turned the computer on, that was it... the computer wouldnt do a thing X|
Lloyd J. Atkinson I used Vista the other day. It was also the last time I will ever voluntarily use the damn thing. I would rather use Windows 1.0 just because it dosent literally chew the RAM just to draw pretty colours.
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Hi. I've heard there are some viruses that damage to hardware like Keyboard ! Some of my friends have told , a virus has damaged to their Keyboard !!! Is it possible ?:confused: I've found it With NOD32: 3/11/2009 5:08:39 AM Real-time file system protection file ... Win32/Virut.NBM virus cleaned - quarantined NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Event occurred during an attempt to access the file by the application: C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE.
Its my understanding that there were viruses that could (don't ask me how or if this is even true) mess around with the read/write head on HDD. You can imagine what could happen.
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Hi. I've heard there are some viruses that damage to hardware like Keyboard ! Some of my friends have told , a virus has damaged to their Keyboard !!! Is it possible ?:confused: I've found it With NOD32: 3/11/2009 5:08:39 AM Real-time file system protection file ... Win32/Virut.NBM virus cleaned - quarantined NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Event occurred during an attempt to access the file by the application: C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE.
If you were able to update the system bios with a new flash you would be able to overclock the system and destroy components.
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Hi. I've heard there are some viruses that damage to hardware like Keyboard ! Some of my friends have told , a virus has damaged to their Keyboard !!! Is it possible ?:confused: I've found it With NOD32: 3/11/2009 5:08:39 AM Real-time file system protection file ... Win32/Virut.NBM virus cleaned - quarantined NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Event occurred during an attempt to access the file by the application: C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE.
yes, if you have a virus and start sneezing a lot, the mucus can get into the keyboard and gum up the works :laugh:
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Its my understanding that there were viruses that could (don't ask me how or if this is even true) mess around with the read/write head on HDD. You can imagine what could happen.
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Yes, Let me explain a little more. I've had my Main Board Driver in the a HARD DISK drive , I guess the Virus mess around it and after installing driver my Keyboard fail. :( Is it possible at all !
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Hi. I've heard there are some viruses that damage to hardware like Keyboard ! Some of my friends have told , a virus has damaged to their Keyboard !!! Is it possible ?:confused: I've found it With NOD32: 3/11/2009 5:08:39 AM Real-time file system protection file ... Win32/Virut.NBM virus cleaned - quarantined NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Event occurred during an attempt to access the file by the application: C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE.
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Its my understanding that there were viruses that could (don't ask me how or if this is even true) mess around with the read/write head on HDD. You can imagine what could happen.
way back in the day, you could screw around with the sector layout of HDs with a low level format (now this is done at the factory and can't be messed with). If you tweaked things right you could improve your performance, if not...
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That sounds scary :wtf:
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