On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:57:50PM +0800, ?...@k4 wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Jochen Schulz <m...@well-adjusted.de> wrote: > > First: today's viruses generally don't destroy their hosts anymore. > > Instead, they use their host as a platform for criminal behaviour. You > > don't earn any money by rendering other people's computer, but > > apparently you earn a lot by making it part of a botnet. > > you are right, it should not be a viruses, maybe it's because my > harddisk is broken, how to check my harddisk? now I have installed a > new system on it and it is working fine now, but I'm afraid it will be > broken suddenly again after a few days, so I should know clear about > the situation of my harddisk. is there any tool to check the health of > my harddisk? thank you.
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