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A virus can cause limited damage to hardware. Most
of the PC components now a days come with Flash Memory.
Motherboards, Modems etc are powered by Flash Memory
to make them upgradable through software. A change in
the Flash Bios may lead to device mal function or even
render it useless. They have to be reprogrammed for
usability.
CIH was designed to overwrite the code of Mother Board's
Flash BIOS. This makes the machine dead, till the BIOS
is reprogrammed or changed.We may have viruses writing
the Flash BIOS of other devices also.