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Virus that wipes hard drives?

Is it possible for someone to maliciously 'hack' into your PC via a chat room to insert a virus that instantly wipes your hard drive?

Is this classed as criminal activity?

Col Sun 03/08/08 09:51

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pug100
Sun 03/08/08
11:37

It is possible if you use the internet without using a firewall program ( you don't necessarily need to be in a chat room, just sitting there connected to the internet is enough) or download stuff without using a virus checker.

If it was your personal stuff that was wiped then it's treated as more malicious than criminal. If it was the Police National Computer or a govt. site then the boys in blue would take it very seriously indeed.

ACtheTROLL
Sun 03/08/08
11:51

everything is possible ... firewall or not ... (see the hacker prosecution this very week) - I have a chum who is now a security consultant who did this sort of thing for fun (but real hacker don't do damage - they just leave tracks)

Instantly ...no - the prog needs to be started up somehow (at boot time or by you opening a document or whatever.

however this sort of thing requires quite a high degree of knowledge - are you worth that amount of attention?
(not many people are)

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