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?

I have never heard of such a virus, but it must suck to have it. Well good luck with killing it.

I haven't heard of a such a virus that does damage to hardware.

However, have you tried booting the computer up in safe mode (pressing F8 whilst booting up) and then running a virus scan in safe mode?

Safe mode basically only opens the system files a computer needs to use to run. Safe mode doesn't load up the additional files on boot like normal windows does.

I hope you manage to fix it in the very near future

I've never heard of a virus of this kind. To my previous knowledge the only way a virus can damadge your computer is by somehow damadging your cmos chip which would prevent the computer from booting at all.

Ive never HEARD of one, ive had thoughts about a virus that could alter the bios settings and overclock the pc causing it to overheat etc... probably wouldnt even work!! What a biatch of a virus you have though. Do as said above thoughh and you should catch it and if you have any other details like the name etc.. then could you post here so we can make sure we dont get hit too.

Would hate to have that virus

When i got given my laptop from my uncle within a week it was doing similar things, random things randomly starting (hard drive etc) it would lock up at first, then take ages to load windows, then somtimes not be able to load windows then i got error message "no bootable devices found, no hard drive found error" i called dell they sent me a new hard drive and now its fine!

Yeah, there is possible that virus can hurt hardware. The most dangerous attack i think is when the virus write the BIOS. So our computer can totally dead.

if the virus not damage our hardware, and it may monitoring our activity. If the virus is created using Visual Basic, there is simple way to destroy it.

1. go to e.g: C:\Windows\System32 and rename msvbvm60.dll to whatever you want like msvbvm60.dll.bak.
2. restart your computer and the virus will error!.
3. List the file, and delete manually.
4. You can rename it back to msvbvm60.dll

Hope's help

Or try hitting it and screaming work dammit work XD.

But really you should send it in to a shop.

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...