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From: jjoshua@topaz.rutgers.edu (Jonathan Joshua)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: An observation...
Message-ID: <17790@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: 4 Feb 88 17:58:08 GMT
Reply-To: jjoshua@topaz.rutgers.edu (Jonathan Joshua)
Followup-To: jjoshua@topaz.rutgers.edu
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Keywords: burnout, fansi, trojan, virus


	New from a hacker near you!  This new virus not only trashes
your disks but flames your hardware!

	There have been 2 topics on the net recently. The first is the
discussion about viruses. The other is the discussion about using
fansi console with burndev.sys.

	It seems that using fansi and burndev.sys can damage your
hardware. From what I understand, it has to do with standing waves.
Anyone want to explain further?

	Anyway, if someone were to figure out how exactly the two
different programs can fry your hardware, a virus could be written to
do the same thing. 

	Anyone running this virus could unexplainably suffer a crash
that would be costly to fix. This virus would of course spread to
other disks, causing the same effect on other computers. 

	If you disk gets trashed by a virus program, the chances of
recovering are good as long as you normaly back up your data. With
this new type of attack against your computer, the only repair might
have to be made by a qualified technician.

	Any responses to this? I would especially like to hear from
the technical people to find out if this virus could be implemented. 

	As a person with limited financial means (I am a student) a
virus like this one could be very bad. A herc board might only be
$75.00, but that is $75.00 too much for me.