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BigJavy

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In one of my classes the other day, another student was talking about a virus that can "permanently damange" a hard drive. He said all the data on a hard drive is written starting from a certain point and that point is given an offset value. He said the virus could change the offset value and render the hard drive completely unusable (except after a low level format). Anyone know if this is possible? My teacher seemed kinda skeptical and I agreed with my teacher but the guy insists he has 5 hard drives at home that have suffered this fate. I kinda think he's doin somethin else wrong... but I could be wrong. Searches on google for virus and offset just talk about how if you want to write a virus that infects a file without overwriting it, you have to make sure the file starts at the same offset value but as best as I can tell... offset values are measured from the start of the sector. He said they were measure from a point that was determined the first time you format and it cannot be changed with a regular format. Any ideas if this is true or how wrong he is??? Thanks in advance!!!

---Jason
 
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