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Article #16Re: Video Card Virus?
From: me
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2002 12:45
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2002 12:45
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To be technical, code does run in a video card's Video BIOS, but there never has been a virus embedded like that yet. :) Same is possible with your mainboard virus also. :) There has been viruses which intentionally try to delete the contents of your modem's flash code, or your mainboard of video BIOS code. Nasty virus's but right now, virus makers are lazy, just doing easy e-mail or macro virus crap received through e-mail. Lazy, lazy lazy. :) On the other hand, they are getting pretty good. The KLAZ virus apparently looks for you to install an antivirus program and refuses to let you by forcing the abort of the antivirus software installation. The Klaz virus is a very annoying little shit. "doS" <kobo65@hotXYZmail.com> wrote in message news:ug2ls146vrdo03@corp.supernews.com... > I laugh everytime I read this... > > "Another User" <twashing@mail.comNOSPAM> wrote in message > news:nN7M8.14584$2h1.2623981@twister.nyroc.rr.com... > > I have a ELSA Erazor X graphics card with a nVidia GeForce 256 chipset. > > Suddenly one day my screen went a tab bit darker and every window casted a > > shadow horizontally across the screen. I asked a techie at CompUSA about > it > > and he said I may have a virus on the card. He said to get rid of the > virus, > > simply get a new card or fdisk my boot drive. I tried the latter and that > > didn't help. I removed the card and dust busted it and the whole > motherboard > > thoroughly. Nothing. > > > > Any ideas? Do I really need a new card? What exactly could the problem be? > > > > Thanx in advance, > > twashing@mail.comNOSPAM > > > > P.S. - I haven't tested the card in another machine because I do not want > to > > spread a potential virus. > > > > > >
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