Actually, there are programs that can and will destroy a hard drive, typically it will only destroy the contents of the drive (reformat/repartition). I personally use such a program to wipe out the master boot record of a drive to clean it for fresh OS installs. The one I use is only 8 kb in size and does the trick in about a second, and with out any warning as to what is about to do. These types of programs can be very dangerous to your data if you are not careful when using them.
Amoediun Trepcoze wrote: > > A program could write to a file over and over > if the file was only 1 byte long it would be writing to the same place > on the hard disk over and over and would get hot and kill the Hard drive > Head Reader > At 08:34 PM 3/11/01 +0200, you wrote: > >Hi All ... > >I was surfing the web someday and I passed on a page where is a program to > >download, and there was said that it DESTROYs the harddisk !!! > >it is an exe file with a size of 8 kb only .......( the link is > >:http://www.geocities.com/fadiworld/fadiworld.html ) > >I don't believe the auther of the page about this program but I don't dare > >to execute it. > >Is there a way to know what this program can do without execting it ??????? > >( I don't know assembly to reverse engineer it ....) > > > > > >thanx for answering > > > >Bisso > > > > > > -- Christopher Rector, MCSE Computer Information Specialist Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Department of Ob/Gyn 217-545-9182
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