On Sun, 22 Oct 1995, Charles H. Lewis wrote:

It's not even a very _interesting_ hoax.  I do sort of like the idea of 
overheating and damaging a CPU with some sort of rogue code, however.  It 

Only virus I've ever verified as actually causing damage to a computer is 
the old popcorn virus that caused the old systems to do full stroke seeks 
on their hard drives.  The old drives were so big it caused the drive 
cases to start rocking untill they tiped over.  That and people who do 
not know how to use the video card utilities to set the scan rate of 
their video card to match their monitor.

Tom