Can A Virus Destroy Your Computer

[@Britec09]

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[@elektrogamer-roblox8717]

Thanks for doing this on my suggestion

[@tim_buck_too9126]

Way back in the early days, there were ways that a virus could potentially cause damage to the actual hardware. Old hard drives that used stepper motors to drive the heads could be accessed at a very low level and force the heads into an area of the disk platter that would either jam the heads or cause the heads to land on a part of the disk mechanism that would destroy the heads. There were also CPU's, graphics chips etc that could be forced to overheat through coding. Thankfully those days are gone.

[@markphilpot8734]

Brian, you’re a good mate and the hellis guy I know. That’s a complement guy if you didn’t know. Too many vulturistic techs live for this kind of thing and revel in the sufferings of the unsuspecting and less learned of us. You’re an exception. You decrypt the clouded and confusing ways of the hateful and render a path for the viewer to redirect themselves from what would be a computer hell. Cheers mate! Go toss a few for me and keep sharing the wealth with us. You do this righteous. Stay safe my mates!😊👍🏻😷

[@Britec09]

Glad you enjoy the content Mark

[@umbertoyltp]

Back in the days viruses had more entertainment value, mostly like annoying pranks. And popups terror!

[@yackablejohnson1485]

I had a very aggressive deltree virus back in the days of Windows 95 that 100% did destroy the video card. I don't exactly know what happened all I know is that I ran the file, everything deleted, and when I went to turn it back on after reinstalling, the video card just didn't work. Back then everything was incredibly expensive, a computer that cost me around two grand, then cost another $600 to get a new video card put in. It was actually one of the things that made me want to learn about computer so I could do my own.

[@jameslewis2635]

The worst damage I can figure (at least in theory) a virus could do to your computer is to firstly wipe the bios information by starting a bios flashing utility before activating a shutdown sequence ending up with the bios being corrupted or just flashing the bios with junk data. Otherwise in the days of spinning magnetic storage it would be possible for a virus to shut off the power before drive heads on hard discs were parked (at least in the early days) which could lead to the write head hitting and damaging the hard disc platter corrupting data on that segment and possibly making the drive unusable. Another way a virus could damage a more modern system is creating a data deletion / junk data writing routine to essentially wear out an SSD. I have never heard of a virus that could do these things but if you go back to computers running software and/or hardware from closer to the dawn of the internet like those running earlier versions of Windows such as the Windows 9x line of operating systems.

[@Britec09]

There has been viruses that wipe the bios information

[@paulsantana9894]

@@Britec09 Hey brother, could you make a tutorial on how to destroy a PC but without a virus? A small question, can you destroy a PC completely without the need for a virus? I hope you answer me

[@TorutheRedFox]

@@paulsantana9894 uh yes it's called a hammer

[@andibiv]

I remember viruses used to be a big headache back in the days when the desktop in your living room was the only computer on range of a few km and there was no internet. You usually ended up taking this malware buying disks from questionable sources hoping to play some game or to get some amazing pice of software

[@Britec09]

in the early days they were real bad.

[@fixitdaz]

Great Video Bri.

[@welshtony1]

Wow that virus brought back some memory's. It is a fun Trojan in a weird way but nasty to. Good info as always.

[@Britec09]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@britexitengineer1407]

A virus can not only destroy your computer but visit & possibly download anything from highly unsavoury & liable websites dangerous to say the least...

[@zeroturn7091]

Haven’t had any problems since XP, back when downloading “things” was becoming mainstream. The worst I ever had wiped my whole MBR. This was way before I knew how to recover data with Live CDs.

[@adey88splace]

I have to admit: that visual was pretty cool.

[@Britec09]

Yeah, its pretty trippy

[@bantymech8242]

I love that virus named " YOU'RE AN IDIOT HAHHAH HAHAH " a lot😂 It was so cool... Nice one Brian

[@Britec09]

Thanks

[@SA77888]

The only virus I ever got was Blaster, not sure everything it did, but the main inconvenience was that it would shut down your computer. At first maybe once a day or so.....but over time it got more and more often till the point that it would shut down as soon windows had fully booted up, every time. I believe that Virus was most prevalent around the time of XP.

[@markroberts7093]

Make sure you make regular backups of your data.

[@Britec09]

True words

[@johngoard8272]

Brian, does this apply to any Windows system including 10 and 11? Also, could you recover your system from a backup on an external drive or reinstall completely and get some of your stuff back from say One Drive? Plus does this virus come in an email or what and what should you watch for in emails so one doesn't get caught by this rather irritating behaviour from someone who in my mind be prosecuted if found out.

[@duranarts]

And here I was, still using Windows XP. Thinking I had entered the Matrix when this happened.

[@NightOwlGames]

ive had a bad virus that forced me to reinstall windows i lost everything including the virus but pc still worked it didnt burn it out.

[@Britec09]

Thankfully, viruses are not as much as a problem like they were back in XP days

[@Iamtheexile]

Hello Britec, any suggestion for a good free antivirus? One for windows 7 too. One thing that annoys me a lot is when the antivirus doesn't comply to the user instruction - if there is a certain file that I don't want to be touched, the antivirus should report it, but comply to user will.

[@cluserverninstagram1928]

Contact 👆 him for any ransomware solutions is the best

[@johnsenchak1428]

The flashing destroyed my brain ! Yes, malware can erase the UEFI and make the computer unbootable

[@Britec09]

The flashing give me a migraine lol

[@FriskyMeerkat]

Wow, I had no idea XP was so vulnerable.

[@Britec09]

Yes sir, it was real easy to infect.

[@NA-re5hb]

@@Britec09 there were no security measures like UAC, or SmartScreen like we have in Windows 10 or 11.

[@jameslewis2635]

If you think XP was bad, you have no idea what it was like with a Windows 9x based operating system - there were practically no security features baked in at all. Windows ME was also buggy enough that some people thought it was a virus. At least XP was based on NT code.

[@ghassanhusni1143]

what you do if the virus attack the logic partition "D" and change all it's content to folders "win 10" it is a smart question

[@davidjamgochian]

Yes Very nice 👍

[@Britec09]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@MyMy-tv7fd]

back in the late 80s viruses on the Mac were huge but software heroes would wrote Disinfectant was generally all you needed

[@Britec09]

Yeah, years ago things were a lot worst, but now ransomware is real nasty

[@yackablejohnson1485]

I'm going to have to research this. Do you have any links? I'm actually not aware of Mac's ever being targeted. Considering they've always been less than 5% of computer users.

[@Mythbuster3808]

Worst malware I ever got was about 6 years ago. I dont remember it's full name or how I got it but it was called something like bin man or something. Just kept getting popups from malwarebytes saying it was blocking connections from it. I tried everything to remove it, even reformatted and reinstalled windows but a few days later it came back again. Ended up just getting a whole new pc.

[@Britec09]

Yeah, there is some real nasty ones out there.

[@johngoard8272]

@@Britec09 So if you cannot get rid of it then just where does it reside on the machine?

[@winstonb990]

can scannow cmd for win XP is workable ?

[@Cruz0e]

You talk about software damage, but can virus damage the hardware? I'm pretty sure in the past it could, with a virus they could give weird command for a floppy disk drive or a hdd to start/stop or power down while its still spinning, and stuff like that. or put a some weird read/write floppy commands in a loop causing your drive making so annoying noise that you may shut the computer down yourself to stop the "noise", possible causing damage. CPUs are now well protected from overheating too, but maybe a virus could also damage other hardware, find some glitch , exploit to cause physical damage.

[@Britec09]

It could damage the BIOS

[@Cruz0e]

@@Britec09 yea but bios is still software damage it can be reset

[@marcfabricatore1506]

@@Cruz0eit can place a bitcoin miner on your machine and if your computer is a laptop it can possibly destroy the battery

[@choosers5177]

The worst virus are the one that write on hdd firmware

[@WillyEckaslike]

i have recently had to switch to windows 10 from W7 because the hard drive failed....it downloads anti virus from Microsoft but do i need to run a scan to check for a virus?..if so where is it on the computer?

[@reamoinmcdonachadh9519]

Thank you Brian,for both the info and the rather kalaidescopic display!! Frightening stuff for users to experience I should think.

[@miak911]

Can I effectly scan .apk files for malware etc. using desktop MBAM?

[@TheHenricus69]

Acronis is your friend, or else a world of (virus) pain.😉

[@ysmaelmarcial7843]

I remember the clasified.exe virus

[@9m2sh]

It would not chew up your machine, but just drive you crazy trying to "fix" it. Just recover your user data, reinstall Windows if you still have faith in it. Happy Year of The Tiger to all who celebrate the occassion. Sorry Brain for miusing your space.

[@Britec09]

Its OK. 9 years subscriber, wow. Thanks for the support. Happy Year of The Tiger 🐯

[@9m2sh]

@@Britec09 Thank you very much. 9 yers, really? Never realised how much your channel has helped me keeping up-to-date with this Beast called Windows, Very good afternoon to you in the UK and a very good evening from KKuala Lumpur. See you further down the log, so to speak.

[@Britec09]

Take care

[@elijahmiller15]

Hey, can anyone help me white my problem? My situation: I’m on windows 11 and I’ve had my computer for about a year or two, it’s an AlienWare, but recently I had just opened my computer and the screen froze. I can’t move my cursor or anything, every time I open my computer it just freezes on the password screen. Help me please.

[@Lionxo]

did you fix this?

[@anshumanmishraw]

Just watching your video on Hotspot connected 3G streaming 1080p.

[@Britec09]

Very nice

[@anshumanmishraw]

@@Britec09 you too

[@Mr11ESSE111]

can Corona Omicron can destroy PC especially if infected person work on it

[@Ineedtotakeabreak]

No

[@Mr11ESSE111]

@@Ineedtotakeabreak but it is virus too and PC are not vaccinated

[@hooberdoober576]

I thought one had taken out my computer this a.m. Turned out: drive cables needed to be redressed. Ciao.

[@sheeeeesh-x8x]

Does it destroy my physical hardware?

[@Del_UK]

Who needs a virus/malware when games like New World and World of Warships (to name two), can render a RTX 3090 to a paper weight. 🤣

[@Mythbuster3808]

What's that about world of warships? I know the devs are scummy bastards but it can brick 3090s now too?

[@Del_UK]

@@Mythbuster3808 Similar situation to the bug with New World, there are other games that have done this and it is not the first time a game has been able to push a graphics card to failure just by being in the menu.

[@Mythbuster3808]

@@Del_UK Damn news to me that wows does this now

[@muthurajnagappa8674]

How to stop windows 10 updates parmanent

[@RecklessVac]

Yes and no yes if youre not FBI, SWAT OR NASA or really anyone who has set up a proper backup. And what virus? We talk the browser virus its fixable Almost any thing can be fixed with a clean install

[@cluserverninstagram1928]

Contact 👆 him for any ransomware solutions is the best

[@PlexTheG]

Rip my $3k pc

[@RRan-dk7ct]

Bad news for sure !!!

[@Britec09]

Its sure is Ron

[@len9518]

Can it actually damage your computer? I mean physical damage.

[@Britec09]

it cannot physically damage computer hardware

[@NA-re5hb]

CIH could. If your motherboard was compatible, it would flash the BIOS, ultimately rendering the PC unusable.

[@Britec09]

CIH was nasty and yes, it could.

[@len9518]

@@Britec09 Thanks Brian

[@OlettaLiano]

I'd just wipe the boot drive and reinstall Windows.

[@Britec09]

I have all my data backed up so that might make sense to reinstall windows with this one.

[@tahirdar4025]

Like it👍

[@Britec09]

Thanks for the visit

[@anthonyfriday1313]

On Windows 11

[@Britec09]

So am I

[@CeikoXD]

Wow @Elektro Gamer-roblox Your request