-=> Quoting Chris Maddock to Adam Csik <=-
 CM> The subject of hardware destroying viruses etc are off-topic here as
 CM> announced recently by the Moderator. They just simply don't exist.
 CM> Anyone wishing to re-open the discussion can send a working copy of
 CM> such a virus through to the Moderator and I am sure he will re-open
 CM> the discussion.
        Not to briefly re-open it, but there was a discussion about
monitor-destroying viruses here recently, and I would have to say that with
the proper program, it *IS* possible to purposefully destroy a monitor by
attenuating the refresh rate (via text-mode graphics-mode text-mode
graphics-mode rapid changes). It is possible, and I've personally ruined a
monitor by improperly setting the refresh rate, and toggling from Windows to
DOS to change the colors. A new Princeton monitor with an ATI card.
        If someone could write a virus that would query the video card, and
then do the same thing, it *WOULD* break the monitor...
 CM> I won't hold my breath waiting for that event.
        Ditto...
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