Re: Possible new virus?

[Tomas Wolf <tomas () skip cz>]

Oh, that reminds me... I remember whole offices without power surge 
protectors burned out after lightning storms... I hope it is not your case.
T.

Wirefire Systems Administrator wrote:

> 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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