-=> Mocking Justin to All <=-
  (Mock, mOck, moCk, mocK)
 JR> I've sit back and read oh so many msg of viruses destroying
 JR> hardware. Well I propose a question, can anti-virus software do this?
 JR> I've tryed it out  on an old 286. And it does! Panda Software's Boot
 JR> Sector protection program  (whatever it's called) can do this. It has
 JR> the possibility to erase the whole  bootsector and other things which I
 JR> can't test cause the whole 286 is dead.  Even the HDs which were 2 of
 JR> them. Well laters. 
this is not hardware damage, it is software damage... the bootsector is
not hardware... if you were to boot from a floppy and replace the things
you deleted accidentally with that protection program the computer would
work fine again... you only think the computer has been damaged because
you don't know how to recover...
think of it this way... hardware is a physical object.. you cannot
delete a physical thing, therefore deletion cannot do anything to
hardware...
... the "any" key is that red button by the power switch...
                   
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