RE: [Full-Disclosure] DOS all platforms

["Brent Colflesh" <Brent.Colflesh@ulticom.com>]

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[mailto:full-disclosure-admin@lists.netsys.com]On Behalf Of Mark Renouf
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 4:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] DOS all platforms


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.

>>>>>>>>>>>

Did a virus cause that, or was it Maxtor's engineering department?

Regards,
Brent

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