I doubt that was true. First off to do that they would have written drivers for a specific drive. Also if you open up a hard drive youll see that the heads cant travel that far.
On 1/24/03 3:01 PM, "Mark Renouf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Exibar wrote: > >> Causing Physical damage to equipment???? Good luck.... although way back >> when there was a program that would set the refresh rate on your monitor >> very very high and it could cause the monitor to die.... Doesn't happen >> anymore though :-) > > I also recall rumours of a virus in the ~1995 time frame which would > cause overexcursion of the r/w heads in the hard drive, causing the > heads to crash into the side of the drive. > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html "The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) is the most dangerous organization in the world." Bill O'Reilly on Fox News during the "No Spin Zone" on January 10th 2004 _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
