>- Speaking of No more Mister Nice Guy!, Julian Yap said this to rod fewster 
on 08 Mar 97  14:52 -<
 JY> Well my theory is, someone could make a virus or trojan, whatever to
 JY> harness this problem and make the monitor turn on and off.  This would
 JY> eventually blow a fuse or something.  Would that be monitor-destroying
 JY> enough for you?
Hey, I know people have been bagging you for this topic, but I think it's
legit.  I know some monitors, if forced to go into weird vid modes can
get hurt.  Take my NEC multi sinc II.  If I try and force it into something
like 1024/768/256 it really strains.  I'd hate to think of what could happen
if someone wrote a virus where the payload waited for inactivity (ie the
user went away) then madly switched video modes at high speed.  I think,
seriously, you could do damage to either vid card or monitor.  Maybe not
much, but still some mefinks.
Steve
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