On (18 Jan 97) Danny Sosebee wrote to Rod Fewster...
 DS> Hi Rod,
 DS> As the moderator of this echo, I figure you've probably seen or heard of
 DS> this one.  Since I'm by no means a virus expert, I don't know if I 
hould
 DS> believe the following statement or not:
 DS> A friend (and programmer) of mine told me a few days back that a virus 
had
 DS> been found which could physically damage an IDE or SCSI hard drive.  He
 DS> stated that this was done by directly accessing the drive controller and
 DS> instructing the drive to step beyond it's normal limits, jamming the
 DS> stepper arm and thus making the drive unusable.
 DS> While it sounds reasonable, I know enough to realize it may or may not 
e
 DS> true.  Is there in fact a virus (or any sort of program) that can do 
his
 DS> sort of physical damage?  I've heard the big noise about 
onitor-damaging
 DS> viruses, and from what I've read here they don't truly exist... but how
 DS> about the above situation?
WRONG! that hasn't been true for years........ some of the frist 
MFM st509? interface drives it was true for though.
Gordon
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