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From: gjackson@athena.mit.edu (Gregory A. Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: Hardware damage? (PC)
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Date: 7 Feb 91 14:55:21 GMT
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Not strictly a virus, but as to software damaging hardware it was true
under Windows 2.1 and WordPerfect 5.0 that running grab.com to capture
an Paint image from the screen caused VGA monitors to snap, arc,
oscillate, and (if you didn't shut it off immediately) burn out.
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Greg Jackson
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