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Question about Virus damage!
« on: July 21, 2009, 01:40:53 PM »
I have just a simple question:
Can a Virus damage a hardware part on the computer?
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Re: Question about Virus damage!
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2009, 02:06:05 PM »
Probably not.

Although I suppose, if they were correctly written, they might be able to say, overclock a component and cause it to fail, but that would be fairly specific to each PC, not something you could make into a generic virus.
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