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Why do I often read about potential of viruses to break hardware?

euser1984 · 2014-06-01 09:39:35

I've just seen it here again - http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/virus.asp Is it true somehow, thanks?

01-06-2014 10:39AM

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euser1984

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I've just seen it here again - http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/virus.asp

Is it true somehow, thanks?

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#2 01-06-2014 08:44PM

martindoran

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the only way i can see a virus do this is if it sends requests constintly to the hardware ie hard drive cpu ram etc , but it would have to go on for a long time , you would have noticed something wrong before anything would fail

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