2006-08-31 23:27:08 · 15 answers · asked by johnny_7 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
You loose your hard drive
2006-08-31 23:29:32 · answer #1 · answered by foogill 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are viruses called MBR and CMOS viruses. The first kind can completely fry your hard drive (maybe $100 to replace or more). The second can fry your motherboard and processor and hard drives all at once. That is where it gets expensive. If you have a custom it isn't that bad (around $300 on average) but if you have a major brand it can get pricey since they use proprietary parts. Compaq is one of the worst. A 3 year old computer I was working on for a client had the power supply fail. That one single power supply was over $350 to replace. I could have bought one with the exact same specs for less than $50 but the size of the compaq was drastically different from the regular one. Dell, HP, eMachines, and all the others all do the same. Although eMachines is not really that bad. The motherboards for them actually match regular boards so they can be easily replaced. Overall go spend the $69.99 at best buy for Norton Internet Security and the $30 a year to keep it active. It will cost you less than the damage from a virus. Look at it like car insurance. You may never have an accident so you wasted all the money but what if you did have one? Then the money would not have been wasted and you would be glad you had it so you had a new car and your medical bills were covered.
2006-08-31 23:37:35 · answer #2 · answered by Samael 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your really careful about what sites you visit and really careful about what you download than you may not need an anti virus, but if your a little unfortunate your system could be vulnerable to keyloggers, trojans, virus's, malware, adware, spyware, the very worst case scenario is a keylogger, in which everything you type is recorded and sent back to a hacker, so should you buy something with your credit card, all your credit card data (number, address etc), login username and password are sent back, and before you know it, you'll have unwanted transactions on your credit cards!
2006-08-31 23:32:38 · answer #3 · answered by Elmer Fudd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the worst thing is that the antivirus software companies won't be able to make a fast buck off of you.
2006-08-31 23:34:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A virus can fry the entire PC not just the hard drive. They can mess up the drivers and stuff to accomplish it.
2006-08-31 23:31:49 · answer #5 · answered by Joe-slim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could get a virus that doesn't let you do things like print and / or use internet, and could take over your computer, and then you'd have to make backups of all your important files and system restore to get it to work again.
2006-08-31 23:33:19 · answer #6 · answered by too_live_forever 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a virus that can destroy your HD, Audio, Video and motherboard. Hope you or your parents have lots of money to cover the cost of your stupidity.
2006-08-31 23:39:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if ur system doesn't have an internet connection, u don't risk installing software or inserting any external storage device, u'll be fine.
2006-08-31 23:43:49 · answer #8 · answered by D Gyroscope 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
youll be throwing your pc in the garbage ....or paying a fortune to have it repaired ..... theres some nasty people out there who get pleasure destoying other peoples things and on here they do it with virus and worms ect ...protect it if you wanna keep it
2006-08-31 23:30:47 · answer #9 · answered by she wolf. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
U r machine can be slow, virus effected and even ur hard disk may crash.
2006-08-31 23:33:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋