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I will add some code samples but not now ,
I have better things todo, I'm searching for some new thing
it is called LIFE ...:-) (just was PM to search it)
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First and most important ,
all next is my imagination,
if you will try to do it you will be screwed ..
This is your problem not mine ,
I really don't care ...
Hell I'm a total LAMER/NEWB and what ever.
So get out while you can !
Now after clearifying the data lets start ,
Few days ago i was in lecture about viruses (the lamest lecture i have ever heard).
Not only it didn't provide what i thought it would it was full of c#@p or as Jarik says:
"Those who know don't tell and the others can't tell ...".
After few moments a question pop'ed up in the crowd
"Can software application harm your computer ?"
And if yes how ?
So here are my five pennies ...
Well from my small experience yes , it was an easy task before today it is much harder.
In the early days of a single bios chip viruses as CIH flourished.
Today's approach of dual bios chips (and even jumper based selection)
is much harder to overcome.
But the it can be done by :
- Make it burn.
- Make it hot.
- Flash and set some bits
- kill the firmware.
- OverClock and kill the fun.
- Play with spinoffs.
Think your a lammer and flush some firmware.
Now im not talking about simple hardrive flashing (shred / dd etc)
but more in the areas of
set some software bad blocks (nasty i know).
And if you have some luck make some good hardware errors.
Flash the hardrive firmware:
Do to to the fact that many new hard disks have a flushable firmware you can play with it.
For instance here is a link how to "fix" a buggy hard disk firmware.
This is to fix or update firmware , at first i thought adding link for that but now I'm afraid (legal stuff).
But if you are a true hacker you might notice that by that approach you can enhance the hardisk purposes.
Such as :
play some music :-)
or maybe to do some "scratching" using the arm and head (hold down one axies).
if you have a killing firmware it is great if not contact a real hacker that can write you good software if you can't read learn and hack!.
one approach i have read about is making the head stuck on one place (play with the axis) and move the arm,
After few hours of this behavior this could make some damage.
Another nasty thing is to kill your acceleration software ( so heads will not go into safe place when laptop is moved).
But harddisk isn't so interesting right ?
lets so some fun with our gpu , cpu you do know that you can easily use software to overcoock (I'm going to cook not to clock :-) ) your chip.
But what about putting the values beyond the safe values ,
but not too much next lower the speed of the fans by software
few cool links :
perlmon
cpuburn
Oo and of course flash your BIOS to 0 funny thing will happen to your computer.
I wonder about APM games if it could actually damage the hardware (don't really know).
