RE: Possible new virus?

["David Gillett" <gillettdavid () fhda edu>]

> > Bootsector virus, perhaps?....
> > Do you know if the fans are still in fact running?
>
> Hmm, I don't see how even the worst bootsector virus could 
> have any effect 
> on the fans since they come on before POST and work even if 
> the CPU is dead. 

  Chris, please stop and think for just a moment!!!

  The original poster has not (yet) provided an answer to this
CRITICAL question:

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

  All he has described is a MESSAGE on the screen (and accompanying
noise) CLAIMING that the fans have died.

  I could write a boot-sector virus that spat out a message that
the moon was made of green cheese.  Whether my virus *could* actually
turn the moon into green cheese or not would be completely
independent of whether you had caught my boot virus or not!

  (I seem to recall a family of viruses that attempted to re-flash
the BIOS.  Machines that were supposed to have different BIOS versions
might not, after attack by such a virus....)

David Gillett


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