Possible new virus?

[Wirefire Systems Administrator <sysadmin () wirefire com>]

Hey all, 

I've had a computer tech calling me about a very strange symptom.

One operating system was XP, one was 98, and another was unknown. The symptom 
was an error while still in text mode before booting:

cpu cooling fan is malfunctioning

Accompanying this is a high-pitched tone from the PC speaker. mem /c/p doesn't 
reveal anything out of the ordinary. There is nothing suspicious in 
autoexec.bat or config.sys... I wouldn't think twice if it hadn't happened to 
3 computers from 3 different vendors in 2 days. 
I've done some looking in google, and that phrase doesn't even occur in the 
google database, which leads me to believe this is something new. 

Any ideas?


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Matt Simmons
Assistant Network Administrator
304.580.8080x5007
Fibernet LLC


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