Paul Westlake wrote in a message to Kurt Wismer:
 KW> you'd be safer if you simply said no known virus has ever damaged
 KW> hardware... hardware damage is possible with new hardware too, it
 KW> just requires the hardware designers to be stupid... (which of course 
 KW> limits the amount of business they're ever likely to do... lets be 
 KW> glad microsoft hasn't moved into hardware - they could afford to make
 KW> mistakes)...
 PW> Consider the effect on the VDU of repeated fast change of illegal
 PW> (or even legal supported) screen format.
I thought something like that might be able to do it. It'd take time tho, and 
you probably wouldn't be able to get away with it for long - the user would 
almost certainly dump the program that was causing that.
Also, causing screen savers to fail and printing bright white text in the 
same place would eventually cause hardware damage, although slight :-)
It is possible to damage hardware through software, it'd (usually) just take 
a really stupid user for it to actually work :-)
Dave
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