RE: DOS all platforms

[James.Cupps () sappi com]

I actually saw the refresh issue kill a monitor about 6 years back. NT4.0
can't remember the service pack level. It wasn't a virus or DOS hack though
it was a boneheaded admin. He then plugged that same machine (with the bad
refresh rates) into another monitor and blew it to. Then he got fired. 

The stupid shall be punished.

James Cupps
Information Security Officer


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Renouf [mailto:mark () tweakt net]
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 4:01 PM
> To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] DOS all platforms
>
> Exibar wrote:
>
> >   Causing Physical damage to equipment????  Good luck....  although way
> back
> > when there was a program that would set the refresh rate on your monitor
> > very very high and it could cause the monitor to die....  Doesn't happen
> > anymore though :-)
>
> I also recall rumours of a virus in the ~1995 time frame which would
> cause overexcursion of the r/w heads in the hard drive, causing the
> heads to crash into the side of the drive.
>
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