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is it possible for a virus to disable the entire hard drive a computer rendering it completely "broken"? at first in the story it starts as a joke, but eventually gets out of hand by affecting more and more computers(maybe other electronics?) i need a believable way for this all to happen? can someone help me?

2006-11-17 14:22:04 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet Security

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Nowadays, Pc's are so made that not anyone can change the settings of the Hardware. You instead need to have a restart.........goon to the setup screen and do it all.

A software can't destruct a hardisk, untill that software runs a robot and does it physically so ;-)

Only one thing that can go wrong is that...........with the power handling capability of Windows OS. A virus (that's also a piece of written code) can hack through the security system of Windows(SFC - System file checker) and goes to the "winlogon.exe", modifying it. Or just modifying the "svchost.exe", most vunerable to viruses.
There are other ways to do so............but they have different names, but use the same technique, go and hack the registry........... or let any undergroung site do so for you.

If it's required that that particular infection on one computer spreads to several others............it's required that the virus is downloadable, hence, it's a software only. Every virus has a motive.
It might be the result of the cold war between two companies.........like Microsoft and McAfee. or you can say the product names.........Windows Live One Care (vs) McAfee Internet Security.
Others do also get infected by that virus, which was made particularly for any Microsoft or McAfee product. Not just these two companies, but others like, "pctools" / "webroot" / "sana security" etc perform such activities.

So, for sure........NO virus, adware, malware, spyware, is without motive. Viruses do a major role in infecting your PC, and all these share a unique property......hidden, undetected by Taskmanager, download other things, and the most important: transferability over internet.

Most viruses are being sent anonymously, so, noone knows who did that to internet. If you are writing a story.......you must take care of this fact.
Now.........you need a believable way to let all this happen.
Simple........
1. Your virus doesn't have any name..........except the filename.
2. Your virus loads into the memory....that is it's a MEMORY RESIDENT MALWARE.
3. Your virus is not complete in itself............. I mean it downloads other files too, but does a major part by itself only.
4. Noone knows about it.
5. Have a very special purpose(this you decide).
6. The starting fun in the story could be that it shows some funny/bad/ideal images or your computer responds so, like instead of deleting a file.......it does make 100 copies of it...........one of it........it uploads somewhere upon an unknown site. yes that's the job you need to do.
7. It makes an Operating System respond maliciously every 10 or so seconds.
8. sends any army repory to some underground site or anything like a spyware.
9. destroys all data over the PC it gets..........or the mainframe or the main server etc.
10. Finally I think, that it should have a propety to re-write it's code every next day............so it becomes difficult to identify which code is virus and which isn't!!!!!!!!

Goodluck!

2006-11-17 16:16:48 · answer #1 · answered by Sunny 3 · 0 1

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2016-08-26 10:57:25 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

You can have it come on computers from the manufacture, or in a popular device that plugs into computer (think ipod).
You could have it be inside a popular game or program.

read up on the CIH virus, it did all of these things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIH_virus

This kind of virus makes me scared and I am a computer guy.

I would read a lot about it. it could be a horror story.

go with the CIH virus as a base.

the CIH virus effected the boot of the computer so that it would have to be sent back to the manufacture to be reset, deleted all of the files on the hard drive and a bunch of other nasty stuff.

take a look at this too:
http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/CIH_FAQ.html
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You could use a Power virus:
Maxes out the cpu in a attempt to burn it out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_virus
very expenisve repair.

2006-11-17 14:33:09 · answer #3 · answered by Ryan E 3 · 0 1

I can give a few links that offer free virus and spyware removers. Here you can search any materiual for your virus story. !You may be having a virus or spyware installed on your PC. Norton, AVG , Avast are free antivirus software. Ad-aware, Ewido are free spyware removers. You can download free softwares at
http://fixit.in/antivirus.html and http://fixit.in/spywareremover.html

2006-11-17 19:21:17 · answer #4 · answered by RICH 3 · 0 2

there is a worm that completly destroys your motherboard's cooling system. It breaks the cooling system which causes your computer to shut off 10 seconds after you turn it on

2006-11-17 14:26:13 · answer #5 · answered by Igobeg O 3 · 0 1

Link on an e-mail.
An unsafe website.

2006-11-17 14:29:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Floppy disk, opening file in e-mails. downloading from certain websites. Using other people's floppy disk. Porn site are full of viruses.

2006-11-17 14:26:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

a link in an email!

2006-11-17 14:24:54 · answer #8 · answered by leelee123 2 · 0 1

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