[Poohbah]

I would love to know how one goes about remotely "destroying a computer".

There was a Mac virus that changed the monitor refresh rate...pumped it up so high that the monitor caught fire if the machine was running long enough.

[Myrddin]

The monitor is a relatively easy attack. I'm not sure you want the computer destruction to cause a house fire as well. The old Heath H-8 uses a CPU based refresh of the front panel LEDs. A very high current/short pulse width was used to allow a rapid refresh scan. If you turned on all the segments and selected a single display element, you could cook the 7-segment display right off the PC board...if it didn't explode from overheating first.

[Petronski]

There was a Mac virus that changed the monitor refresh rate...pumped it up so high that the monitor caught fire if the machine was running long enough.

LOL! That's hilarious.

[HAL9000]

There was a Mac virus that changed the monitor refresh rate...pumped it up so high that the monitor caught fire if the machine was running long enough.

I don't remember any such virus on the Mac, and so far, a Google search hasn't produced any evidence of your dubious claim.

I do remember that "Compute" magazine once published the source code for a game that would fry the monitor of a Commodore computer. Unfortunately, they did not publish the warning against running the program until the following month's issue.

[Libertina]

There was a Mac virus that changed the monitor refresh rate...pumped it up so high that the monitor caught fire if the machine was running long enough.
Well great, download a song and have your house buned down. /s Sounds as if Janet Reno is in charge of this operation.

[jeremiah]

Port Townsend?