[Just go Play]

I have never come across a virus that was able to actually damage hardware and seriously doubt that it would be possible. I have seen several that were able to alter settings in the bios and I've heard that there may be a current virus that is able to possibly overwrite modern asus bios. I have not checked into that one yet but it sounds feasible since asus bios is able to be updated from a windows utility... not the smartest move they could have made IMHO.