klez virus

[Ronnie Gauthier]

Klez, in any of its variants, at least at this point will NOT even come close 
to the damage you describe. OTOH, a good extra jolt of juice will. How does 
the owner protect the box from spikes or continued brown-out condition. Long 
term brown is a silent killer. Was there a storm/lightening activity that 
evening. Also, check the power supply with a voltmeter.

On Monday 17 June 2002 04:12 pm, Keith Antoine wrote:
> 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.