DA> Therefor it is still ralavent, and my original point still
 DA> remains, that it is possable to distroy a peice of hardware 
 DA> through software.
 KW> fine and dandy, but no know virus ever has, nor is it particularly
 KW> likely one ever will... few viruses even get tested, let alone are the
 KW> product of the amount of research necessary to pull of what you're
 KW> suggesting...
 I don't know about you, but I was hit by a virus a few years ago
 that caused me a bit of physical damage through software.  I believe
 it was called the "Dark Avenger" virus or one of it's kindred...  Near
 as I can tell, it checks your hard drive for some parameters to set up
 a "Harmonic Resonance Access" of the hard disk arms... Once reached, the
 heads actually colide with the plates of the drive and... well.. there is
 this loud undescribable noise that seems to turn your hard disk plates to
 a very fine black powder...
  
 I've also heard of others that will overwrite your CMOS, burn your CPU,
 and even rewrite your EEPROM (though I doubt this last one)...
 Remember...  They just figure this is what it does...  They don't let it
 do all the damage it can...  They just guess from the code...
... Tag line thievery ... On the next Geraldo!
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