Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: lexw@idca.tds.philips.nl (Lex Wassenberg) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Hardware damage caused by virusses? Message-ID: <0010.9009131758.AA06913@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 12 Sep 90 07:51:52 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 18 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu Can anybody inform me whether there are virusses that can actually damage the hardware of a system? If so, what is the damage, and how is it done? Which virusses do so? Related question: I seem to remember that someone posted an article quite some time ago, which described the "12 tricks" Trojan Horse quite extensively. My memory keeps telling me that one of these tricks damaged the hard disk. The article also described the other 11 tricks. Unfortunately, I didn't save it at the time. So, if anybody has this article, can you mail it to me? (or maybe repost it, if the moderator allows it). Thanks everyone. - -- _ _ / U | Lex Wassenberg, Philips TDS, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands /__ < lexw@idca.tds.philips.nl 88 |_\ "Since nobody understands me, I speak only for myself."