w_tom <w_tom1@usa.net> 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@yahoo.com 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?