full-disclosure - FW: DOS all platforms

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From: Jos at meltemi.co.uk (Jos Osborne)
Subject: FW: DOS all platforms

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.
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.

Jos

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Burnett [mailto:marukka@....com]
Sent: 24 January 2004 03:00
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu; James.Cupps@...pi.com
Cc: mark@...akt.net; full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] DOS all platforms

Actually I just remembered the viruses can break current hardware. There are
many CPU's out there that can be overclocked in software. The PowerPC 750
(aka G3) cpu using in Apple computers is one of them. And I doubt anyone
will try to argue that OCing can kill the cpu.