Can a virus damage PC hardware?

[antoniodilen]

guy's i'm realy disturbed about this chitchat about viruses burning harddisks.....
destroying ram cards Etc...

i know that a virus is just software and it will spread like hell.. and slow the pc down
Any coments????

 

[sw7x]

i think yes

 

[antoniodilen]

i think yes

How???
how can it damage??

 

[SIRUS3001]

One Of My friends Got one of those kind of viruses....
They Overload the electricity [Overclocking] or something like that
that virus damages ur entire computer excluding ur monitor.....
Nothing will remain.....

 

[antoniodilen]

One Of My friends Got one of those kind of viruses....
They Overload the electricity [Overclocking] or something like that
that virus damages ur entire computer excluding ur monitor.....
Nothing will remain.....

good god... from where did he get it???
Email???

 

[sw7x]

i think yes

 

[zed]

One Of My friends Got one of those kind of viruses....
They Overload the electricity [Overclocking] or something like that
that virus damages ur entire computer excluding ur monitor.....
Nothing will remain.....

good answe bro

 

[zed]

good god... from where did he get it???
Email???

most virus gardes detect them (even overloading applications). so dont worry

 

[antoniodilen]

most virus gardes detect them (even overloading applications). so dont worry

Ela thanks for the comment

 

[niroshan84515]

of course some of the viruses r overclocking( giving more voltage)

 

[SIRUS3001]

good god... from where did he get it???
Email???

Nope a CD ..The virus took out his entire PC
The Cover of the Virus is a painting programm and when you insert it auto installs
and when you restart the Pc nothing will work ...everything will be gone...

 

[henderson]

simply they can flash the BIOS and write junk onto it, and then PC is screwed

 

[sw7x]

How???
how can it damage??

kattiya me gana kiyanne

 

[antoniodilen]

simply they can flash the BIOS and write junk onto it, and then PC is screwed

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[akash123]

Ya Ya It's True

 

[cha_sl]

i heard there are kind of viruses that damage hard disks boot sector that make it useless. never happened to me..

and i also heard there are viruses that can mess up with bios.. and making ur mobo useless..

never heard of a virus that can blow ur comp unless in movies..
ex:- die hard 4

cheers..

 

[gpindika]

Ya

of course some of the viruses r overclocking( giving more voltage)

 

[uguduwa]

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
Isnt there a way to change computers AC frequency which results in b00m

Computers don't *use* AC power, therefore there *is* no frequency.

(Yes, AC gets fed into the power supply, but it gets stepped down to a manageable level (12V, 5V, or 3.3V), then rectified into DC, before it gets sent out to the rest of the components.)

Some power supplies may allow you to change the frequency that they expect (60Hz vs. 50Hz) so they can work in countries other than the U.S., but this is done the same way as the 110V/220V switch -- it's a physical switch you have to change. It can smoke your PSU if you set it wrong, but it's not controlled by software *at* *all*.

Now, if you mean overclocking, it *may* be possible to destroy some hardware using that, but most CPUs now shut down instead of smoking themselves. (Ever since that Tom's Hardware video of the Athlon going up in smoke after the heatsink was removed got released, AMD got serious about shutting the processor down when it was running out of spec.) I'm also not sure how much hardware allows you to change its frequency via software -- some nvidia cards do (although that's probably a driver thing). Most CPUs don't -- you have to go into your BIOS to change it.

(And user code doesn't have write access to the BIOS -- heck, most of the time it doesn't have read access either.)
Although no physical damage is done, some viruses have been known to overwrite system BIOS or information on hard drive controllers that basically render the hardware unusable unless reprogrammed. Chernobyl was the one that I remember the most that destroyed data on a hard drive or overwrote the BIOS. Chernobyl Virus

guy's i'm realy disturbed about this chitchat about viruses burning harddisks.....
destroying ram cards Etc...

i know that a virus is just software and it will spread like hell.. and slow the pc down
Any coments????