mike4ty4@yahoo.com wrote:
> 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?

Notice those thousands of viruses doing so much hardware damage. The
glaring hole in Sebastian's comments is the one missing example after
so many hundreds of thousands of viruses. According to Sebastian, this
damage is easy. Fine. So where are the hundreds of examples?
Sebastian's reasons for how a virus can harm hardware are easy to
implement if viruses can damage hardware. Therefore numerous examples
should exist. Why does it know it can happen and yet does not provide
any example? Are virus writers too moral to harm hardware?