klez virus

[Keith Antoine]

I need a bit of help here as a customer of mine got this virus and it has 
damaged the bios and killed his Harddrive. The death of the hd was 
progressive in that first it would not boot and now the bios on another 
machine will not see it.

I know from my electronics background and experience over the years that 
malicious virii can/do kill hardware. However I was asked HOW, and I find 
myself knowing the tchnicalities but expressing that in understandable 
english, errrrmmmm ??

Specifically the virus has commands that attack and generate undue emf's at 
particular points causing either shorts or sharp temp rises. 

Can anyone make this more erudite and understandable to the unititiated, 
please. 

Why I need this is that I took a scsi card out two days before and it would 
not reboot, so I went to bios and resaved it, all was fine, rebooted and I 
left. Now there is the suspicion that what I did caused the problem.
However as admitted two sone were online that night. In the morning
when the owner woke the computer up it came up with the virus protector 
saying that 10 files were infected with KLEZ, he went to clean them up and 
the machine stopped dead half way through a write. It refused to reboot and 
that were I came in. The owner is a pro photographer with weddings on the hd
but it now seesm to be electrically dead, when put in my machine it  will not 
even see the drive, it is blank not eve a 'none' nothing appears.

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Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy'
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161
Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage