Actually, there are Computer Viruses that are designed to shut down important parts of your computer hardware than can lead to damage to many physical parts of your computer.
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Most viruses cannot harm hardware, the only type of virus that can harm hardware is a Memory virus, which permanently writes itself to the Ram, or Memory of a computer, the best method to remove the virus is to replace the ram in the computer, which usually cost about 20 dollars for 2-4 gig cards, depending on their speed and retailer.
1.erase or corrupt useful data from harddisk 2. affect hardware components 3. slow down the computer
A corrupt driver
No. it is software.
No, McAfee virus protection is not hardware. Instead, it is a software program. Hardware is the physical parts of a computer, but software is computer code. So an antivirus program is software, not hardware.
It means your Registry is corrupt or you have a Virus.
it depends on the type. Virus can steal data, corrupt data, and modify data without your permission
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Corrupt or missing driver or failing hardware.
There is no way to eyeball a file and tell if it is a virus. Use a good antivirus program and let it do the work for you.
Viruses by nature destroy software, not hardware. But, you could run a "virus" that was an infinite loop, that did not allow for its termination, and that could possible lead to heat issues for the hardware. Possible damaging it.