[jpl]

I would love to know how one goes about remotely "destroying a computer". Are they going to send a super-high voltage charge along the power lines directly into someone's home?

[Poohbah]

I would love to know how one goes about remotely "destroying a computer".

There was a Mac virus that changed the monitor refresh rate...pumped it up so high that the monitor caught fire if the machine was running long enough.

[MD_Willington_1976]

You could build a universal bios flash utility and name it music.mp3.exe....click and ...hey whats with the blank creen on reboot?

[rs79bm]

I would love to know how one goes about remotely "destroying a computer". Are they going to send a super-high voltage charge along the power lines directly into someone's home?

Hatch, of all people, being the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, ought to know better. My god can you imagine the lawsuits?

[Cachelot]

I would love to know how one goes about remotely "destroying a computer".

Not actually too difficult. There are a few viruses and worms around that do the trick, if you're unlucky and they bite you on the right day.

But if music companies actually go about writing malware, it will sure be interesting to watch the retaliation ;).

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I would love to know how one goes about remotely "destroying a computer".

Maybe not destroy the computer but it is very easy to erradicate all the data or hose the BIOS. Very easy.

[MarkL]

I would love to know how one goes about remotely "destroying a computer". Are they going to send a super-high voltage charge along the power lines directly into someone's home?

Nearly every modern computer has "flash programmable" bios, that allows you to download updates and using some software, update the system bios. There are a few really nasty virus infections out there that are already capable of doing this. All you have to do is corrupt the bios, and your computer is now a beige (or black) paperweight. The only way to fix it (if you're lucky) is to return the motherboard to the manufacturer.

It would also be easy enough for a small assembly language program to delete the partition table, MBR, and boot sector of your hard drive, with the results as above.

Mark