To: JeanS
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?
11 posted on
06/17/2003 3:06:22 PM PDT by
jpl
To: jpl
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.
16 posted on
06/17/2003 3:11:51 PM PDT by
Poohbah
(I must be all here, because I'm not all there!)
To: jpl
You could build a universal bios flash utility and name it music.mp3.exe....click and ...hey whats with the blank creen on reboot?
To: 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?
Hatch, of all people, being the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, ought to know better. My god can you imagine the lawsuits?
33 posted on
06/17/2003 3:23:22 PM PDT by
rs79bm
(The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit ... R. Limbaugh)
To: jpl
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 ;).
74 posted on
06/17/2003 3:52:55 PM PDT by
Cachelot
(~ In waters near you ~)
To: jpl
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.
To: 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?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
250 posted on
06/18/2003 12:09:06 AM PDT by
MarkL
(OK, I'm going to crawl back under my rock now!)
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