Re: Can a computer virus kill the CPU?

w_tom <w_tom1@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Again, original question was about hardware damage.
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Again, the original question was not about viruses that can attack
software or firmware. Original question did not ask about sending
computer back to the factory.
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This reply answers an original question about viruses harming
hardware. Others are now citing malware harming software. That is not
the original question.
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Can you please pay attention? Never mind the "original question"! You
are responding to the original *questioner*. Respond to his (*new*)
posting or don't, but don't respond saying you don't.

Probably you wouldn't have this problem if you responded in the usual
interleaved (quote-response, quote-response, ...) way, instead of
top-posting.

mike4ty4@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
But can't the virus also be designed for pure wanton violence? What
happened to the pure-destruction viruses? Ie. it would spread and
spread, and then when a specific date rolls around, the "time bomb"
goes off and the computers are destroyed. And if you can get a
server's hardware to autodestruct, you do not need DDOS attacks...
Therefore destroying the hardware may not be very easy to do...
Viruses have been made that wipe hard disks, destroying any useful
information in the process, so why can't they destroy hardware that's
vulnerable? Perhaps hardware is tougher than you think? Also,
wouldn't a military virus that destroys hardware be a useful weapon,
to disable enemy computers? Perhaps maybe then such viruses DO
exist... it's just that the US Government doesn't want us to know about
them... Figures. The gov't is probably always 1-2 steps ahead of what
we know about. This of course leads me to an interesting question: Do
CPU manufacturers make "military editions" of their chips that are
faster and better than the chips you can buy in the store?
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