will virus cause hardware faulty?

kiss_my (_i_) SG

the answer is yes.
Laughing

just to confirm. yes or no?

^tamago^ SG

actually no, but there are some on the borderline case.

one is to corrupt the BIOS, rendering the computer unbootable until it is re-flashed, either at the manufacturer or diskette, depending on the ROM.

another way i've tried is to repeatedly query the hard disk (e.g. list every single file in the c drive) and heating it up, but that can take a long time.

BillyBong SG

Only 1 virus to my knowledge….starts with an ‘S’...almost 10-15 years back…

^tamago^ SG

actually it depends on the ability of software codes to control hardware aspects of devices in the computer.

quote:

"Your graphics card might be put into a mode with very high refresh rates/resolutions which are beyond the capability of your monitor.
Or rapid switching between this and a conventional resolution.

Either of these are likely to write off an older monitor (and some recent ones).

Additionally, virus might turnoff/turn down your fan speed control on the cpu/hard drive/psu/system fan where these a variably controlled using temperature sensors. At the same time as running some processor intensive thing equivalent to torture test. This would cause overheating and probably permanent damage to the cpu etc.

It may be possible to tell the hard drive to park its heads on the media surface rather than in the parking zone or reconfigure the drive geometry so it physically attempts to address areas of the drive which do not physically exist, damaging the internals of the drive. A low level format could make the drive unusable. eg update the table of error sectors to say many parts of the drive are faulty even though they aren't.

Your CMOS settings can be cleared or changed. These may include voltages to your ram and cpu or overclocking options for FSB etc. By over-volting components like ram beyond spec it might be able to blow them.

Your BIOS can be flashed preventing the PC from booting in future. (There are ways to fix this by mail ordering a new chip or a liveswap (while powered up) of the chip into a working machine to reflash it. Was described in custompc mag).

Any peripherals with firmware can be overwritten/corrupted and often made into useless doorstops. Examples are virtually all CDROMS, DVDROMS and some more obscure hardware too.

If you have bluetooth or wifi or lan connections, it might also conceivably overwrite the config/firmware of your router/accesspoint, or permanently lockup your mobile phone.

All the above have possibility to cause persistent or permanent damage.
There are plenty of other less serious things which could cause hardware to lockup or confuse it until the next reboot."

CIH and NYB are two good examples.

kiss_my (_i_) SG

bios corrupt thn ram will faulty, thn ram faulty motherboard need to change.

so the answer is,
virus will cause hardware malfunction.

malfunction=faulty=spoilt.

^tamago^ SG

since when bios will cause RAM to be faulty and RAM spoil need to change motherboard de......

my motherboard could not boot last time cos of a faulty RAM... simlpy DX a new RAM and it is working....

ditzy SG

There was one virus that made cd-rom drives spin so fast they burnt. Laughing

charlize SG

Sure or not? Laughing

charlize SG

On a side note, my Spybot check can't seem to download new updates.

Gives me a "Bad sum check" message.

Wtf is that?

My spybot kena some virus? Laughing

chanff8 SG

encounter this problem sometimes. Just wait a few hours before trying again and it'll be fine

charlize SG

I have waited for a few months already.

Still the same old message. Laughing

MacNaiker SG

I think they call it hardware virus, the most dagerous . when yr bios gets hit is the most dangerous

er_liang89 SG

some type of worms actually corrupts your bios. i’ve got one a few months back, so just need to reinstall bios can already

newmanmback SG

actully will not lah...but know that most hardware have some form of instructions, commands set to make it work, function, behave, and retain its specification or properties...so such malware or virus or whatever will attack these areas so that the hardware on the whole cannot behave properly and get confuse and eventually fail to perform work.... should make the bios as simple and stupid and not user friendly so difficult to attack hahaha Mr. Green

digicharat SG

it is a spyware by itself. Laughing