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They can remove some of the information stored on the computer.

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Magnets were initially a concern as they could remove data from magnetic media (disks and tapes), but with the advent of other forms of storage (flash memory, CD, DVD), this is much less of a concern. They could still induce currents in wires and potentially impact the processes in the systems. A large enough magnet could damage files on the hard drive, as they do on older magnetic tape drives.

You should not place magnets near old-style CRT monitors. The magnets used in computer speakers are not powerful enough to affect any displays.

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If you put a Magnet to close to your computer it will wipe out all of your computers data

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Not the computer itself, but the software on the computer. Strong magnetic fields can degauss the magnetic drives, that is the can lift and destroy the data that is stored on the hard drives.

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Yes they can>

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