RE: Possible new virus?

["David" <David () cawdgw net>]

Or maybe a special event? Were the three co-located? I created a lot of dust
bunnies in my basement once and two months later three systems (in basement)
fans failed within twelve hours (a power supply fan on one box, a cpu fan on
another box, and a graphics card chipset fan on yet another box)

Sometimes life is stranger than fiction.

Be glad you are hearing something. My systems toasted in the night. Power
supply shutoff due to heat (that saved it), graphics card barfed and hung
the system, but survived the heat, cpu melted down and died. cpu did alarm,
but heated up so fast, I didn't realize what it was (having never overheated
before) and then it cut off (died) so I didn't find it until morning.



-----Original Message-----
From: Bacchus Apollonius [mailto:sleepwalker () saintly com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 4:40 PM
To: compjma () hotmail com; security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: Possible new virus?


Hail,--
  In the original post the poster noted that he/she "wouldn't think twice if
it hadn't happened to 3 computers from 3 different vendors in 2 days".  What
are the chances of three different CPU-fans (or whatever) in three different
systems dying natural deaths in 48 hours with the same BIOS message despite
being from different vendors?...

Bootsector virus, perhaps?....

Do you know if the fans are still in fact running?

Thanks & Regards,

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Berry [mailto:compjma () hotmail com]
Sent: Tuesday, 9 September 2003 16:21
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Possible new virus?


> From: Wirefire Systems Administrator <sysadmin () wirefire com>
[snip]
> cpu cooling fan is malfunctioning
[snip]
> Accompanying this is a high-pitched tone from the PC speaker.

Ahem...Perhaps a warning tone that YOUR COOLING SYSTEM HAS FAILED??  This is
not a security question, I'm not sure how it made it on to the list, but
please take it to a hardware support forum.  Most likely the fan is full of
crud and has overloaded the fan header, try cleaning the fan, and swapping
to a different header.

Chris Berry
compjma () hotmail com
Systems Administrator
JM Associates

"Conciousness: that annoying time between naps."

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