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Viruses

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Jul 15, 2012
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Virus usually attacks the software and damages it .But my question is that does virus attacks the hardware parts ,i mean graphics card,hard disk,mother board,etc,?
 
Nope. I guess someone can write a virus to run up the CPU to 100% and try to overclock and maybe shut off the fans, but don't think I have seen or heard of one that does that.