About a month or so ago I got a virus or worm or something on my system. It was the Justice Dept. worm, and if you're familiar with it, it pretty much locks your system up but good. I successfully removed all traces of it (I'm pretty sure at least) but now I keep getting the dreaded blue screens. My Dell PC checkup hardware scans fails my HD in Read Tests and Self Tests, and says my disk may be failing. When I check the blue screen diagnostic on the PC Checkup, it gives a different reason for each time (it's happened 4 or 5 times now), but often the suggestions it gives for troubleshooting also mentions hard disk failure. Granted, my system is about 3 years old, but I never had a spot of trouble until I encountered this virus. Can a virus actually do damage to the HD? A checkdisk says I may have some bad sectors, and if I run a fix it seems to do alright, for a while at least. I'm going to replace the drive at any rate, but was the virus the cause?
Any help would be appreciated.