Looks like an audio engineering issue. While not being a rocket engineer myself, I assume the combustion chamber is somewhat symmetrical. It is likely acting as a resonance chamber and increasing the amplitude of the soundwave to the point of physical damage. I shattered the rear window in my '96 Camaro twice with a 1200W Fosgate and a single 10" bazooka tube. Tell NASA to crack the window when they turn up the bass!
I stopped using AV on Windows machines about 10 years ago, and have not had any malware problems since then. (aside from some opt-in spyware that used to come with free software, which I promptly removed myself) The performance hit from the large AV footprint was to onerous to handle anymore. I used to work in a computer shop, and the AV software really didn't seem to be protecting any of my users anyways. Fully patched and updated systems would still come in riddled with trojans and spyware. The newest class of malware is simple too evasive, using multiple attack vectors and social engineering to overcome most system protections.
The only thing I do now is follow 'best practices'. Don't click on links in unfamiliar emails, pay attention to the the URLs that links are taking you to, close or endtask dialogue boxes from websites (and acutally read them), and use a resident registry modification monitor to see if something is changing startup files(I use Spybot). And most of all, have multiple backups of anything you have that you don't want to lose forever.
If you are still getting viruses, you probably are doing something stupid.
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Looks like an audio engineering issue. While not being a rocket engineer myself, I assume the combustion chamber is somewhat symmetrical. It is likely acting as a resonance chamber and increasing the amplitude of the soundwave to the point of physical damage. I shattered the rear window in my '96 Camaro twice with a 1200W Fosgate and a single 10" bazooka tube. Tell NASA to crack the window when they turn up the bass!
I stopped using AV on Windows machines about 10 years ago, and have not had any malware problems since then. (aside from some opt-in spyware that used to come with free software, which I promptly removed myself) The performance hit from the large AV footprint was to onerous to handle anymore. I used to work in a computer shop, and the AV software really didn't seem to be protecting any of my users anyways. Fully patched and updated systems would still come in riddled with trojans and spyware. The newest class of malware is simple too evasive, using multiple attack vectors and social engineering to overcome most system protections. The only thing I do now is follow 'best practices'. Don't click on links in unfamiliar emails, pay attention to the the URLs that links are taking you to, close or endtask dialogue boxes from websites (and acutally read them), and use a resident registry modification monitor to see if something is changing startup files(I use Spybot). And most of all, have multiple backups of anything you have that you don't want to lose forever. If you are still getting viruses, you probably are doing something stupid.