Realistically, what is the most PHYSICAL damage a virus could do to your computer?
Realistically, what is the most PHYSICAL damage a virus could do to your computer?
Kayden Hernandez
David Watson
It could thrash your hard drive. Probably not much damage at all.
Dylan Carter
>Spinning disks in 2017
Brandon Sanchez
if you can flash the bios you can make the sysem not boot. theoretically some laptops have a power management prosessor. you could over volt some parts if you reverse engender the board. its not worth it though.
Caleb Myers
>Implying SSDs don't have limited rewrites.
James Perez
There was an exploit which let to explode macbooks battery.
arstechnica.com
If you can modify firmware, you can damage components badly.
Logan Smith
>its not worth it though.
That's why OPs pic is old timey. They don't bother anymore but in olden times there were things that messed with your harddrive and they were much more frail than now.
Landon Ross
op here is a gift en.wikipedia.org
its a list of sanity checking failures on hardware.
Logan Bell
Run everything at 100%, hope for PSU overdraw.
Austin Jones
Show me a 3TB SSD which isn't overpriced. :^)
Juan Moore
oh and here is a medical one as a bonus
en.wikipedia.org
It actually cooked people.
Adam Thompson
Overheat but turn off fan until it destroys itself.
Or set the refresh rate on your LCD to an incompatible rate over HDMI until the driver board erupts into flames.
Nathan Sullivan
Turn it into a bomb, & blow your family to smithereens.
Kevin Nelson
exploding a van
Alexander Taylor
up the multiplier and disable hardware reset in case of thermal overload
Ayden Jackson
Brick your firmware
Kevin Moore
>reverse engender
Oliver Rivera
>having limited rewrites in 2017
Noah Jenkins
>he thinks spinning rust doesn't have limited writes
Zachary Thomas
The start of the disgrace
Nathan Smith
Turn you into a pedophoile and make you go to jail, is physical damage
Nathan Collins
>Systemd mounts variables used by Unified Extensible Firmware Interface on Linux system's sysfs as writable by the root user of a system. As a result, it is possible for the root user of a system to completely brick a system with a non-conforming UEFI implementation (specifically some MSi laptops) by using the rm command to delete the /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/ directory, or recursively delete the root directory.