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 Sep 5 2006, 11:59 AM
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ITS ALIVE.....MUHHHAAAA  Group: Members Posts: 531 Joined: 17-October 05 From: Chippenham UK Member No.: 13,031  |
it can in a way physically damage hardware as kawasu said it can damage the CPU fan and CPU. But at the end of the day a virus is a virus that is using excessive systme usage.
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Sep 5 2006, 04:10 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 108 Joined: 9-July 06 Member No.: 26,360 |
Yeh i know there are so many viruses that can harm your hardware. Actually they try to occupy a lot of space of your hardware memory and try to execute the garbage type program which has no sense but need a huge space to exectue that results an ill hardware crash.
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Sep 6 2006, 05:25 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 398 Joined: 21-June 05 From: Callifornia Member No.: 8,519 |
QUOTE(Albus Dumbledore @ Aug 24 2006, 11:38 PM)  il lell you, that works! my computers internet wasn't working, i threw the wireless card across the room, it hit the wall then just for the hell of it, i put it back in and it worked  even if there was a chip in the card, so i had to buy a new one even though it worked lol ive never heard of this virius, but i hope i never get it because i cant afford anything like that... YES!!!!!!!! ive done this many of times... infact my graphics card has some electric tape holding a little black sphere thingy... cause it broke off lol... anyways... Never heard of this virus but im sure it exists... 1 thing i sujest doing IMEDIATLY is reinstall windows or boot in safe mode and try and find it if its slowing down your cpu fan that can be very deadly for your computer... 10 seconds without a cpu fan on todays proccessors can be very deadly for the cpu and can often fry it to a point of no return so in other words its going to destroy your computer... so unless your looking into buying a whole new computer id get rid of the virus before you do anything else... o and also get a better virus scanner cause you shouldnt be getting these... |
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Sep 7 2006, 08:44 PM
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Newbie [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 7-September 06 Member No.: 29,594 |
i know a few virus that coz ur pc to get slow, an shut it down automatically, destoy data, freeze it up etc but i never heard of that one. you make me gonna purchace the latest antivirus
 cause i deffinately dont wana end up like ur aunt.
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Sep 9 2006, 03:45 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 398 Joined: 21-June 05 From: Callifornia Member No.: 8,519 |
QUOTE(omego @ Sep 7 2006, 01:44 PM) i know a few virus that coz ur pc to get slow, an shut it down automatically, destoy data, freeze it up etc but i never heard of that one. you make me gonna purchace the latest antivirus cause i deffinately dont wana end up like ur aunt.just get a reliable one that is up to date im using norton antivirus corperate edition which was back form 2000 so far i deem it the most trusty and reliable one out there and also it dosnt bog down my computer!!!!!!!!! |
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Sep 20 2006, 07:41 PM
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Newbie [Level 3] Group: Members Posts: 43 Joined: 28-July 06 Member No.: 27,439 |
QUOTE(Dooga @ Aug 24 2006, 09:42 AM) Recently, my aunt just got a virus... it's not a normal virus that deletes files or monitors my movements... it's actually a virus that does permanant damage... What it does is that is starts up with Windows, and occassionally use up your CPU excessively, causing your CPU fan to speed up. Then it suddenly drops down, so your fan slows down in a sudden stop. This not only hurts your fan, your CPU, but it also hurts your Harddrive, since your hardware's heat is inconsistent and jumpy. This resulted in some "harddrive inconsistencies" which made her computer freeze after 10 to 20 seconds after startup... ouch! Anyone else got or know anything similar? YA , these viruses are easy to make. tried pressing ctrl-alt - delete to see which process is using up your cpu? |
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Oct 3 2006, 12:29 PM
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Member [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 56 Joined: 2-October 06 Member No.: 30,929 |
Till this date I havent come across any virus(God forbid) that does hardware damage. Three years back I also had a similar thought, I thought my computer had been attacked by a virus which is eating up my processor and hard disk which wasnt the case. It turned out to be the regular 'attack of the spywares/adwares'.
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Oct 3 2006, 12:57 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 244 Joined: 9-September 06 From: TX Member No.: 29,706 |
u reccomend doing it with ewido....the true masters of these things are at techsupportforums.com go there post a hjt log and they will tell you what to do step by step.....i hope this helps....DONT go out and buy a new virus scanner. this will just be a total waste of money....hope this helped best of luck to you
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Oct 3 2006, 04:29 PM
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Moderator  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 1,337 Joined: 26-December 04 From: Canada Member No.: 2,940 |
Well she got a new computer anyways so it doesn't matter. The problem with the old one is that the harddrive is actually damaged, so even booting in safemode won't work, and any excessive use of the harddrive (such as surfing the internet) will mess it up and almost make it not work for a couple of days. But it doesn't matter, since the computer was just a temporary (crap) one she had until she bought another one, and she did.
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