Oh, you mean 30 minutes later when you edited your post after you found out it was fake.
New Virus Warning Received!
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That was edited when a specific artcile with that particular name of hoax was located for confirmation to show just what it is. But you already missed the entire point anyways.
as usual.
GameMaster
New Member
Anyway, we will know, won't we?
If that virus is so dangerous and if any1 gets infected, we will get some imore nformation about it and that will be the prove of its' existence.
If that virus is so dangerous and if any1 gets infected, we will get some imore nformation about it and that will be the prove of its' existence.
Some virus designed to see systems hard boot would still take a lengthy time to see a drive ruined from that type of wear. By that time however the user would have already ran antivirus sweeps or brought it into a repair and shouted: "hey just fix this thing so it doesn't keep restarting all the time!".
The viruses that do actually circulate are geared more for causing the obvious software problems where a system then simply becomes unusable while no actual physical damage is seen. It would take a more sophisticated bug to see fan speeds and voltages changed due the massive amount of different makes and models of prebuilds as well as boards where no one bug could cover all since different OSs as well as protections would counteract it.
The idea of hoaxes of course is to get people running in a panic when nothing is later seen. For those that have seen similar they can't see why anyone would need to be told about them. But for the endless newbies who simply check the mail and not much else how do you think they would reacte to receiving something like this being forwarded by someone in their family maybe or personal contact?
The viruses that do actually circulate are geared more for causing the obvious software problems where a system then simply becomes unusable while no actual physical damage is seen. It would take a more sophisticated bug to see fan speeds and voltages changed due the massive amount of different makes and models of prebuilds as well as boards where no one bug could cover all since different OSs as well as protections would counteract it.
The idea of hoaxes of course is to get people running in a panic when nothing is later seen. For those that have seen similar they can't see why anyone would need to be told about them. But for the endless newbies who simply check the mail and not much else how do you think they would reacte to receiving something like this being forwarded by someone in their family maybe or personal contact?
Cleric7x9
Active Member
Some virus designed to see systems hard boot would still take a lengthy time to see a drive ruined from that type of wear. By that time however the user would have already ran antivirus sweeps or brought it into a repair and shouted: "hey just fix this thing so it doesn't keep restarting all the time!".
The viruses that do actually circulate are geared more for causing the obvious software problems where a system then simply becomes unusable while no actual physical damage is seen. It would take a more sophisticated bug to see fan speeds and voltages changed due the massive amount of different makes and models of prebuilds as well as boards where no one bug could cover all since different OSs as well as protections would counteract it.
The idea of hoaxes of course is to get people running in a panic when nothing is later seen. For those that have seen similar they can't see why anyone would need to be told about them. But for the endless newbies who simply check the mail and not much else how do you think they would reacte to receiving something like this being forwarded by someone in their family maybe or personal contact?
what is a system's "hard boot"?
dznutz
New Member
.... receive 50 million dollars, 6 wives, and a donkey.
can't believe i forgot to finish the sentence
Try more like 3 seconds when I was finally able to get onto the site there. Slow loading apparently due to a volume of readers more then likely.
A hard boot is when you are forced to press the reset button when a system locks up like when a games crashes on you or Windows simply freezes. A large number of cold starts and hard restarts take their toll on hard drives.
Cleric7x9
Active Member
so how can a virus "see" that?
A virus design to change voltages as well as corrupting system and other files could cause an endless number of problems. If a virus locks Windows up what do you generally do? Hit the reset or power button. That is then a hard shutdown.
While an occasion game or program lock can be seen that itself would still take time to see actual damage depending the current condition of any drive involved. Repeat hard boots will take a toll however over any lengthy period of time.
A virus would have to be well written to see constant hard boot however since by then someone would be running a program to sweep a drive or taking a system into a repair shop to find out... "what's the problem? find out!".
Cleric7x9
Active Member
im sorry, i think you are completely wrong here. you said "a virus designed to see a computer's hardboot" or something like that. i mean, come on man, this is like the 15th thread in the past two days where you have made a completely erroneous statement then continued to try to make it seem like you didnt. please stop wasting people's time with this stuff; if you dont know what you are talking about, just dont post, or maybe ask a question or something. dont just make it up and say something like "a virus designed to see a system's hard boot..." because there is no "hard boot" that a virus could see. argh. sorry to come down harsh, but its getting so annoying, every thread has a completely incorrect post from you. i have made tons of wrong posts, but i admit when i make a mistake. please stop before every thread gets degraded to people like me calling you out.
And you are trying to apply everything literally to that. Hard booting will eventual cause damage to drives and that is a known fact. A generalization was all that was being pointed out of what it would take namely a highly sofisticated virus not one you generally find floating around.