I would believe that a virus or trojan did what is claimed because I have spoken to someone who has had this happen. BTW it doesn't have to be a virus or trojan, it can be a file that tricks the user into installing. The person who told me this discovered porn stored on his computer after receiving a huge phone bill from a different phone service than he is subscribed to. He knows his children didn't put it there because they were too young to use the computer. It wasn't child porn and no-one was too offended, they were more offended by the size of the phone bill!
There is already some research into turbine powered cars although designed more for efficiency than performance. They use the turbine to drive an electric generator which eliminates the past problems of being unable to gain full power immediately. It does provide food for thought if you just want raw power.
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I would believe that a virus or trojan did what is claimed because I have spoken to someone who has had this happen. BTW it doesn't have to be a virus or trojan, it can be a file that tricks the user into installing. The person who told me this discovered porn stored on his computer after receiving a huge phone bill from a different phone service than he is subscribed to. He knows his children didn't put it there because they were too young to use the computer. It wasn't child porn and no-one was too offended, they were more offended by the size of the phone bill!
There is already some research into turbine powered cars although designed more for efficiency than performance. They use the turbine to drive an electric generator which eliminates the past problems of being unable to gain full power immediately. It does provide food for thought if you just want raw power.