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The article made me remember of this virus I've heard about. Supposedly, it was accessing a rotation media (harddisk, floppy disk? I don't remember) in differen
by yread 15y ago
The article made me remember of this virus I've heard about. Supposedly, it was accessing a rotation media (harddisk, floppy disk? I don't remember) in different patterns and monitoring the failure rate for each pattern. Then it would keep accessing it in the pattern that caused most errors which would kill the hardware device - as the errors were supposedly from resonances caused by movements of the reading heads and would cause physical stresses in the device.
Anybody else heard about that?
- Create 15y agoCommodore 1541 FDD, but it was serviceable. ps: also similar was setting "unfriendly" scanrates for unprepared CRT-s, Samsung notebook HDD "click of death". memoryhole: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Commodore_1541#The_drive_head_misalignment_issue https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Commodore_154... though my all time favourite is the ping
- Steko 15y agoWasn't that the sort of thing Tsutomo Shimomura specialized in? I remember it being hyped as part of the danger of Kevin Mitnick's hacking into his systems.