Viruses

[Zilar]

Do viruses on a HDD effect pc components ? Or only ur software ?

[Jerped]

Most will only hurt the software, but some can also hurt the lifetime of your components (for exemple a virus making the head of the HDD go back and forth for no reason)

[WkdPaul]

-moved to troubleshooting-

[Captain Matt]

2 minutes ago, Jerped said:

Most will only hurt the software, but some can also hurt the lifetime of your components (for exemple a virus making the head of the HDD go back and forth for no reason)

That sounds brutal. I wonder if breaking an HDD like that is a thing.

[xephoneration]

Really depends on the virus. Overwrite viruses are the ones that like to replace your files on your HDD, Directory viruses are ones that are located in the disk but affect the whole directory, I mean the list can go on but that is a few of them. There are some that do effect PC compents such emdedding themselves in the RAM (MRV). Some will even "act" like prime95 on your CPU and basically run algorithms till your CPU is dead, rare to come by but they are out there. 

[nuttytechy]

I have heard stories (whether they are true or not) of viruses infecting a computer and screwing up the bios from the windows client. As I got a gigabyte motherboard and got a thing called APP center on my windows then it could be possible.

[Zilar]

1 minute ago, xephoneration said:

Really depends on the virus. Overwrite viruses are the ones that like to replace your files on your HDD, Directory viruses are ones that are located in the disk but affect the whole directory, I mean the list can go on but that is a few of them. There are some that do effect PC compents such emdedding themselves in the RAM (MRV). Some will even "act" like prime95 on your CPU and basically run algorithms till your CPU is dead, rare to come by but they are out there. 

If you would factory reset the HDD, would it delete the viruses ( not viruses that could destroy ur pc)

[xephoneration]

Really depends, your best bet is to run TRON SCRIPT that is pretty much the mother of all nukes when it comes to search and destroying viruses and any malicious software on your computer.