Can A Virus Destroy Your Computer

Can A Virus Destroy Your Computer
A virus can damage programs, delete all your files, encrypt all your data and erase your hard drive partition table and more. A virus can reduced system performance or even crashing your system entirely with a BSOD. Hackers or cybercriminals can also use viruses to access your personal information to steal or destroy your data. So yes viruses/malware/ransomware can destroy your PC.

Some simple steps to follow.

* Never download .exe files from untrusty worthy sites.
* Never install .exe programs from untrustworthy sources.
* Never click links in emails
* Never click links from untrusty sources
* Never use Pirated software
* Never let anyone remote into your pc

The MEMZ trojan is a malware in the form of a trojan horse made for Microsoft Windows

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[markphilpot]

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!😊👍🏻😷

[tim_buck_too]

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.

[welshtony]

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

[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

[adeysplace]

I have to admit: that visual was pretty cool.

[johngoard]

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.

[umbertoyltp]

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

[jameslewis]

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.

[bantymech]

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

[zeroturn]

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.

[markroberts]

Make sure you make regular backups of your data.

[yackablejohnson]

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.

[britexitengineer]

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

[duranarts]

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

[reamoinmcdonachadh]

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

[SA]

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 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.

[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.

[ghassanhusni]

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

[miakurdi]

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