Number of posts: 104 Registration date: 2009-01-02 Location: Tasmania - Australia
Subject: ways to catch viruses Sun Jan 18, 2009 10:26 pm
This might be a blonde question but I am curious as to the possibilities:
Is it possible or in the future a feasable 'might happen' that if you hook a tower that you know has viruses in it to a monitor that you use for a tower that does not have viruses in it that the viruses in the first tower could be transmitted to the monitor and then through that to second tower or transmitted to other peripheals such as printers etc?
Yes, I have never heard of it but I was just wondering
Zante.
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Number of posts: 365 Registration date: 2008-10-13 Location: Near Bedford
Subject: Re: ways to catch viruses Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:06 pm
I doubt that is likely Zante, the monitor is only for display, it doesn't have storage (like a hard drive or memory) that could store a virus.
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oldfogy
Number of posts: 376 Registration date: 2008-10-14 Location: Birmingham UK
Subject: Re: ways to catch viruses Mon Jan 19, 2009 12:48 am
For a virus to spread "in this way" there would also have to be a second PC connected and turned on "at the same time" to the that of the known infected PC, basically it would have to be connected to part of a network.
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Simon B
Number of posts: 16 Registration date: 2008-10-14
Subject: Re: ways to catch viruses Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:27 am
viruses cant be spread by monitors nor can they be spread by speakers, mice, keyboards only viruses that can be spread by keyboards and mice are the type that give you colds and stuff, proper living viruses not virtual electronic ones
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Sun Jan 18, 2009 10:26 pm
I realised I was dyslexic when I went to a toga party dressed as a goat. 
