Re: [Full-Disclosure] DOS all platforms

[Matt Burnett <marukka@mac.com>]

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" <mark@tweakt.net> 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.
> 
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