Is it possible for a virus to hide somewhere and survive a reformat, sneak back through the system during the reinstall, remain invisible while you finished loading WinXP, and then leap out to destroy the hard drive?
I don't know enough to say it's not possible. I suspect it's far more likely that -- if a virus has indeed fried the computer -- the buyer immediately ran out to the porn sites without protection, caught an LTD (laptop transmitted disease), and fragged his (her?) own drive.
Hoping the motherboard isn't affected? Exactly what kind of supervirus does this person think they have? In 7+ years of I.T. work, I never came across a single virus that caused hardware damage. And I cleaned a lot of crap off of our workstations.
Gah! I've never heard of a virus frying a motherboard. And I think that reformatting a drive is what computer techs do to get rid of viruses, right? Why can't people just be smart and nice instead of flakes? *hugs*
I don't think a typical virus would survive a reformat (considering that's how I got rid of a couple on my desktop PC before), so, I'm thinking, this buyer-person is just a 'douchebag' (since I've been mainlining Las Vegas recently and James Caan kinda rox *g*).
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I don't know enough to say it's not possible. I suspect it's far more likely that -- if a virus has indeed fried the computer -- the buyer immediately ran out to the porn sites without protection, caught an LTD (laptop transmitted disease), and fragged his (her?) own drive.
Hoping the motherboard isn't affected? Exactly what kind of supervirus does this person think they have? In 7+ years of I.T. work, I never came across a single virus that caused hardware damage. And I cleaned a lot of crap off of our workstations.
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As long as the comp was not hooked into the Net when XP was reinstalled, a virus couldn't have gotten back on there until the end-user got the comp
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To add to that - cheaters lie more.
I don't think a typical virus would survive a reformat (considering that's how I got rid of a couple on my desktop PC before), so, I'm thinking, this buyer-person is just a 'douchebag' (since I've been mainlining Las Vegas recently and James Caan kinda rox *g*).
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