| Richard,
Some Viruses can perform serious physical damage, as rightly stated, it is a piece of software, but it is what the software is designed to do that causes the damage...sometimes wiping your hard-drive or vital files on it leaving your computer unusable...that's physical enough damage for anyone !!! Especially if you have valuable work/photos etc filed away on there, Once that has gone, getting it back is virtually impossible if it has been destroyed by the actions of the Virus itself.
A guy who lives around here got 2 years in prison for writing a virus and unleashing it on the net, it infected thousands of computers world-wide destroying millions of pounds worth of work.
Do a google on Simon Vallor and you will find the story.
Always best to keep a back up of those files somewhere - on a CD is a good place and always always make sure your anti virus is kept up to date.
As for this particular one, I have had a least 4 of these in the past 2 days, I didn't open them but just deleted them as spam.
Regards.....Mark.
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