-=> Quoting Steve Bennett to Julian Yap <=-
 >- Speaking of No more Mister Nice Guy!, Julian Yap said this to rod 
fewsteron
 SB> 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?
 SB> Hey, I know people have been bagging you for this topic, but I think
 SB> it's legit.  I know some monitors, if forced to go into weird vid modes
 SB> can get hurt.  Take my NEC multi sinc II.  If I try and force it into
 SB> something like 1024/768/256 it really strains.  I'd hate to think of
 SB> what could happen if someone wrote a virus where the payload waited for
 SB> inactivity (ie the user went away) then madly switched video modes at
 SB> high speed.  I think, seriously, you could do damage to either vid card
 SB> or monitor.  Maybe not much, but still some mefinks.
Thank you Steve!  I was waiting for someone to actually see my side of the
argument and take it seriously and not just attack me without reason.  It
seems you totally agree with my theory and I am glad someone is saying
something about it.
... I prefer not to be a part of the tag line concept.
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