RE: Possible new virus?

[Harris Samuel W PORT <HarrisSW () mail ports navy mil>]

He said it happened to several (3 I think) different computers. Not likely
to be a simultaneous failure on 3 different machines. 

Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Berry [mailto:compjma () hotmail com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 4:21 PM
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


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