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  • 1.  List of Any Viruses that Cause Permanent-Physical Damage to Storage Devices

    Posted Mar 03, 2016 08:49 PM

    Im sure within Symantec and elsewhere theres an index of what Viruses do What.  Its a huge chore to read a 500 word synopsis on each virus. The only viruses Im aware of only make data unreadable but dont do any physical damage and allow you to simply repartition/reformat the hard drive.

    Currently, Im trying to determine if the physical problem Im having with my hard drive was induced by viruses found on it, or is just coincidental.  Surely theres a way to Query the list of known viruses for "Causes Hard Drive Crashes."  Without providing you the names of the viruses found, how can I go about looking at the list of any and all viruses causing "permanent physical failure" of the hard drive?

     

    Thanks



  • 2.  RE: List of Any Viruses that Cause Permanent-Physical Damage to Storage Devices

    Posted Mar 04, 2016 03:19 PM

    You can search here

    http://www.symantec.com/security_response/landing/azlisting.jsp



  • 3.  RE: List of Any Viruses that Cause Permanent-Physical Damage to Storage Devices

    Posted Mar 05, 2016 01:46 AM

    Well this is getting interesting, I have never heard of a virus causing physical damage to storage drives. so I suppose your case is just pure coincidental, if its otherwise do let us know. 



  • 4.  RE: List of Any Viruses that Cause Permanent-Physical Damage to Storage Devices

    Posted Mar 05, 2016 07:36 PM

    I appreciate the link to the list however none of the listings answer my question.  To clarify, the virus discovery was recent and prior to the hard drive having problems (bad sectors)

    I guess what Im more interested in is:

    Can a hard drives' BIOS/Firmware be accessed in such a way to cause it conflicting instructions, make it execute those instructions say, 100 trillion times until it just starts burning out?  Is it theoretically possible or not?



  • 5.  RE: List of Any Viruses that Cause Permanent-Physical Damage to Storage Devices

    Posted Mar 05, 2016 07:54 PM

    Not really. Viruses are not created to destroy hardware or data. Viruses are created to steal data and money, to send spam, or to disrupt other users with denial of service attacks. Hard drive destruction should be the least of your worries.