even tho the sasser and blaster virii have been infecting loads and loads of machines, it still only seems like a pest.
most virii just infect somebodys email or just annoy somebody to the point of formatting their box, and then getting some av protection.
there hasnt really been a virus that will actually destroy a piece of hardware so that the machine is completly unusable (wiping the firmware of a harddrive, or overclock the processr for example), and if the people responsable for the viruses at the minute realise that this can be done the there is no telling what can happen in the near future. just think, a highly replicating virus (blaster or sasser) with the ability to destroy a hard drive, or any piece of hardware, as soon as the user restarts!
just a thought, but things may turn nasty in the next few years for microsoft! (lets face it, who really likes windows???:) )
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even tho the sasser and blaster virii have been infecting loads and loads of machines, it still only seems like a pest. most virii just infect somebodys email or just annoy somebody to the point of formatting their box, and then getting some av protection. there hasnt really been a virus that will actually destroy a piece of hardware so that the machine is completly unusable (wiping the firmware of a harddrive, or overclock the processr for example), and if the people responsable for the viruses at the minute realise that this can be done the there is no telling what can happen in the near future. just think, a highly replicating virus (blaster or sasser) with the ability to destroy a hard drive, or any piece of hardware, as soon as the user restarts! just a thought, but things may turn nasty in the next few years for microsoft! (lets face it, who really likes windows??? :) )