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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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.
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.
Corrupt or missing driver or failing hardware.