Im thinking no, it couldn't directly affect the hardware but one could certainly screw with your sound drivers and software if that's what you were thinking. I could be wrong but I doubt it. I'd get ready to hand over $20 if I were you.

I'm not that good with computers, but, No, a virus can not hurt speakers. It can effect the drives maybe, but not the hardware. They are wire magnet, paper and other items, viruses, can do no harm to them. A power surge on the other hand, can.

this kid doesnt know what a device driver is, ill try to explain but i probly wont have any luck

hmm, i bet with some direct access to the speaker drivers you "could" write something that stresses the hardware enough to break...
may it be extremely high/low frequencies, extreme volume, both of them, whatever.

the key is to hit the resonance frequency of one of the speaker's components. If you manage to play a tune with the same frequency for some time and enough volume then it "might" break

but finding this isnt that easy...

Fjord

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Infinity TC Mod Leading Developer

a virus alters data data is housed in software so no you hardware cannot be hurt by a virus

A virus can trash the boot sector on an HDD and render it useless. So in some cases, although only affecting "data" a virus can trash hardware.

driver = software to control hardware components.
so a virus "could" - in pure theory - damage hardware.

for example you have certain security controls in drivers - so the normal operationof the hardware stays within the safe parameters.

take one example: overclocking certain cards per software - thats possible wihtout question.
now IF a virus is tuned to alter some driver specs of a graphics card and overclocks it massively, that could indeed damage ur hardware.

Fjord

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Infinity TC Mod Leading Developer

Apart from those nasty boot-sector viruses, I do remember hearing about a virus that trashed monitors by forcing them to run at incredibly high resolutions coupled with very high refresh rates. Because the monitors couldn't support such high resolutions and refresh rates they ended up becoming non-fuctional. That was ages ago however, and I wonder whether or not such viruses actually existed, or were only speculative.

there are viruses that can force your sound card to play a song that may damage it but in most cases of a "noise virus" the song played is just to annoy the owner of the computer my friend at one point had a virus hit his system that played the theme for a kids show over and over but it didn't hurt his sound card it just drove him crazy

oops i think i hit the wrong button

i know of a virus called the pyro virus that causes the cathode tube in your moniter to overload, causing the moniter to catch on fire, sometimes taking other stuff with it.evil eh?

Any RAT trojan can allow a malicious user to manually delete your soundcard drivers and audio codecs



Note:enny backdoor BEAST can do this there is one in my computer wich is really giting on my nervs my brother said chips does NOT like virus's so i will not post names.