there is no possible way that a virus could cause a literal "meltdown". this isn't the movies, software has basically a null effect on hardware. it can only do what the hardware was designed too do, and i highly doubt Motorola put in a "self destruct" instruction set into its chips.

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Virus Reference 2.1.6 mentions an 'Unnamed PostScript hack' which

disables PostScript printers and requires replacement of a chip on

the printer logic board to repair. A Mac virus guru says:

"The PostScript 'Trojan' was basically a PostScript job that

toggled the printer password to some random string a number of

times. Some Apple laser printers have a firmware counter that

allows the password to only be changed a set number of times

(because of PRAM behavior or licensing -- I don't remember which),

so eventually the password would get "stuck" at some random string

that the user would not know. I have not heard any reports of

anyone suffering from this in many years."

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