mike4ty4@yahoo.com writes:

>But could such damage be done on the average PC nowadays by a virus?
>Is there anything that a virus can do to the average PC that could
>possibly force a replacement of hardware?

I'm not sure what the "average PC" is nowadays.

I'm certain that some systems can be destroyed by software errors;
that such errors could be made deliberately by virus authors.

But I don't think this would be more than a small proportion of
systems.

If you want to destroy a system, I would target the weakest bits:
the ubiquitous flash chips, particularly those on harddisks.

Casper
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