...damage do computer viruses do?

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Answer by Hush
Submitted on 7/11/2004
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abc - that was hardly constructive. Computer viri can only cause data (information damage). They have other effects, in that they can limit use of certain programs, send out copies of themselves, run resource intensive software which will slow your computer down to a crawl. There were rumors of viri that damaged hardware - these were false. The closest a virus can come to damaging hardware is to infect the software chips on your motherboard and corrupt them. Many moder-day motherboards (such as Gigabyte's come with Dual BIOS - which means there are two BIOS chips, and is one becomes corrupted you can boot off the second one, and then restore the primary BIOS. Without that though, its a new BIOS chip or motherboard. However there are only a couple of viri that did that, and most AV software will see them a mile off.

Answer by Neo
Submitted on 8/15/2005
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NBC - that was hardly constructive. Computer Biro can only cause data (information damage). They have other effects, in that they can limit use of certain programs, send out copies of themselves, run resource intensive software which will slow your computer down to a crawl. There were rumors of Vito that damaged hardware - these were false. The closest a virus can come to damaging hardware is to infect the software chips on your motherboard and corrupt them. Many moder-day motherboards (such as Gigabytecome with Dual BIOS - which means there are two BIOS chips, and is one becomes corrupted you can boot off the second one, and then restore the primary BIOS. Without that though, its a new BIOS chip or motherboard. However there are only a couple of Biro that did that, and most AV software will see them a mile off.

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Question by olga
Submitted on 5/12/2004
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What kind of damage do computer viruses do?

Answer by Froko
Submitted on 5/23/2004
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It depends on what kind of virus.

Answer by abc
Submitted on 6/2/2004
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you're such an idiot.

Answer by huh
Submitted on 11/3/2004
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you seem to know an awful lot about idiots...

Answer by pak man
Submitted on 12/6/2004
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you geeks grow up the corpz 4 life

Answer by sly
Submitted on 7/11/2004
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Thank you, Hush. You were far to kind to abc, however. Only an idiot knows what an idiot is. This must rank abc very high among idiots, because apparently, abc knows what an idiot is. The only stupid question, is the question that isn't asked. SLY

Answer by troy
Submitted on 1/27/2005
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sly, your an idiot

Answer by Lofty
Submitted on 5/10/2005
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Good point there SLY. Also, abc seems to only know the first three letters of the alphabet. This must make him/her a total idiot, but, if he knows what an idiot is like you said, and he calls Froko an idiot, then Froko must also be an idiot.

Answer by TRACE
Submitted on 11/30/2005
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YEAH SLY IS RIGHT, N THANKS FOR THA INFO HUSH

Answer by shelliwelli
Submitted on 12/5/2005
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thanks hush you've helped a lot SLY what are you on about?!?!?!

Answer by computer-virus
Submitted on 3/9/2006
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Answer by buffting
Submitted on 4/25/2006
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well I'm just buff

Answer by Taybag
Submitted on 4/29/2006
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y'all need to start writing some real answers and stop using this site as a chat room

Answer by Lizzie Magizzie
Submitted on 5/17/2006
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I hate viruses!!!!!

Answer by mew
Submitted on 6/15/2006
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mew, i am a kitty

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Answer by raven
Submitted on 9/14/2006
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to tell you the truth sly some idot are starter than you think and im the top rank idoit

Answer by ur mum
Submitted on 12/12/2006
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shut it all of u u spazez ur all wrong

Answer by BB
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yeh dude

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Answer by Xinxia
Submitted on 4/18/2007
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Thanks for that info Hush... I'm using it to do a computer assignment now. See how many people you've helped?

Answer by AbdMajeed
Submitted on 4/18/2007
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Heh.. Computer Virus

Answer by sfdhksghkm
Submitted on 4/27/2007
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ABC is a tool!!!

Answer by Sanjib
Submitted on 5/30/2007
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U must about it. otherwise dont come here....