Virus that wipes hard drives?

[Col]

Is it possible for someone to hack into your PC via a internet forum site and insert a virus onto your hard drive that wipes it clean?

Is this classed as criminality on behlaf of the hacker i.e. can these people be traced and prosecuted, is it easy to trace?

Have been threatened by this sort of hacking activity and wnat to make its possible or not.

[Sir.Legend]

people can access yopur pc and make the drawers open and close , this isnt as serious as it looks but makes inexperienced users scared.

so im told anyway.i dont know enough , in fact very little about this .try googling you may get answer quicker
open and close

[liascm]

nowdays virus can do anything, i would say it is possible but please note it is illegal and t would be best to keep that grudge for someone to yourslelf and not try to get revenge cause they can easily trace the computer that made it happen

bye

[Col]

Its actually the reverse. Had some threatening mail a while back which I have managed to stop however have heard rumours that this may be the next move.

Have bought a back up hard drive and saved all my stuff anyway.

[Tichfield]

Backing up is prudent anyway. Hard disks do stop working without the help of a virus.

[Mac70]

In all my years removing malware, Ive yet to see a virus that wipes a hard disk.
You do get file infectors and a certain infection or two that will cause your bog standard anti-virus and anti-spyware progs to delete important system files, thus rendering your computer unbootable.
They are easily removed with the right tools and instruction though.