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Can a virus harm hardware?
I've heard of a virus that causes the heads in the HD to try reading a physical address several feet outside the HD casing. After smacking themselves into the inside of the casing several times the arms would bend and pretty much ruin the HD. This was several years ago, though, (like when...- acktcat
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- Forum: PC hardware - General discussion
