Greetings, Am Dienstag, 27. Januar 2004 13:35 schrieb Jos Osborne: > Back just before the millenium my local college lost about 30 or so brand > new computers cos' of a virus that overwrote their flash Bios'es with > random gibberish. Said Bios chips were soldered directly to the motherboard > so they couldn't even be easily replaced.
It was called CIH. Here in germany a local computer maginze offered to retoast to chips. > I heard about the HD destroyer > too - it was supposed to be something to do with setting up a vibration in > the drive heads that destroyed the slipstream layer the head rides on. > Nobody I know has ever _actually_ seen it happen tho. May be an urban myth. I also onced heard about a monitor destroyer. It ought to overclocke the monitor. But in fact, all my monitors (purchesed since 1995) switch off, if the frequence jump out of range... Keep smiling yanosz _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
