 Do Viruses Damage The Hardware |
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 Oct 24 2006, 08:52 PM
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Newbie [Level 1]  Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 24-October 06 Member No.: 32,142  |
 Do viruses damage the hardwarePlease tell me |
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Oct 24 2006, 09:28 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 212 Joined: 15-September 06 Member No.: 30,028 |
There are some viruses that do, but not that many, most just damage software.
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Oct 24 2006, 09:35 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 144 Joined: 17-September 06 Member No.: 30,138 |
There are some viruses that can damage the hard drive by turning
fast destroing it. Anothers can turn off the fans to made the cpu overheat. But most of the viruses afect the software |
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Oct 24 2006, 09:41 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 246 Joined: 9-September 06 From: TX Member No.: 29,706 |
yes...sadly there are some nerds out there that have NOTHING better to do than hurt peoples computers....so they just felt as if they HAD to create viruses. and some of which hurt hardware, but as people before me have sadi most will damage your software....but this can end up being just as bad as hardware....believe me! good luck!
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Oct 24 2006, 10:10 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 212 Joined: 15-September 06 Member No.: 30,028 |
QUOTE(the_aggie10 @ Oct 24 2006, 10:41 PM)  yes...sadly there are some nerds out there that have NOTHING better to do than hurt peoples computers....so they just felt as if they HAD to create viruses. I can see the attraction of making them, as they seem fairly fun to make. Worryingly I can also see the attraction of spreading it, but I doubt I would ever do that. However I doubt I could ever spread a virus if I got round to making it, as I would feel guilty about the people it affected. |
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Oct 25 2006, 01:23 PM
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Newbie [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 26 Joined: 25-October 06 Member No.: 32,181 |
Virus is a software program created by experts to cause problem to the computers.
mostly it attacks on the operating system like windows or linux or mac however there are some viruses which affect the harddrives printers and other hardware stuff. to protect the computer from viruses one should try going to secure websites and opening email with attachment which you think is from a trusted source. |
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Oct 25 2006, 03:24 PM
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Super Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 227 Joined: 15-January 06 Member No.: 17,162 |
QUOTE(changeyourmind @ Oct 25 2006, 11:23 PM) Virus is a software program created by experts to cause problem to the computers. bill gates has made one that has infected the majority of computers in the world.  |
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Oct 25 2006, 09:18 PM
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Member [Level 3] Group: Members Posts: 95 Joined: 4-October 06 Member No.: 31,075 |
The short answer is now, but there are some that can disable your software from reading or making changes to hardware. But mostl viruses are designed by script kiddies and do annoying things like email them selves 5000 times and clog mail servers.
The worse part is when a virus zombies your computer and then allows folks to use it for a lot of bad things from piracy, to DDOS attacks, to a kiddie porn server. It really suck if someone did that to you and the authorities come blasting down your door. |
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Oct 25 2006, 10:32 PM
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To Cool for Cache  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 1,099 Joined: 16-June 05 From: Some Place. Member No.: 8,317  |
Actually there are viruses that can damage hardware. There is already a topic talking about this, I'll try to find it.
Just to let you gets know, I won't say there aren't ANY viruses for mac/linux, but there aren't MANY. There are only a couple and they usually come through iPods and such. Easily detectable btw. No one makes viruses for macs because they figure we've suffered enough already. |
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