Re: Possible new virus?

[Sebastian Schneider <ses () straightliners de>]

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Your statement is quite interesting. Did you ever thought of a virus just 
showing up a CPU cooling fan message? It might be like the old Parity virus 
that displayed an parity check error right before starting up the operating 
system.
In such a case, it's not of any interest if it might be a hardware issue for 
it might be a new boot virus or virus infecting the BIOS software.
The original poster also pointed out, that this issue occured on several 
systems not connected directly.

Somebody said, here some newbies, beginners, or advanced on that list so 
everyone can learn from each other, what is some of the intentions of that 
very list (Security Basics).

Maybe you're quite right, since that message should get also forwarded to the 
focus-virus forum.

So let's start learning ;-)

Sebastian


On Thursday 11 September 2003 00:51, Chris Berry wrote:
> From: "Lee Rich" <lee.rich () wlga gov uk>
>
> > > "I'm not sure how it made it on to the list"
> >
> > And please don't forget, this is 'security-basics'.. which means to me,
> > that it's not all security experts
> > here, it's people breaking into the field aswell. So you should expect
> > questions that may be simple to
> > yourself, but to others, it's part of a learning curve.
>
> Oh, I wasn't complaining because it was basic, I was complaining because
> it's not a security issue.  To the best of my knowledge (which on this
> particular subject is fairly extensive since I'm originally from a hardware
> background), there is no possible way for software to interfere with the
> CPU cooler no matter how malicious it is, there just isn't any interface.
> (though I suppose if you had a motherboard with variable fan speed control
> and you somehow got an infected firmware update for your BIOS, then maybe,
> but thats a real long shot)  However, as always I'm willing to fess up if
> I'm wrong, is there anyone here who knows differently?  I'd be happy to
> help the original poster, I was just trying to point out that this isn't
> the correct forum for hardware questions.
>
> Chris Berry
> compjma () hotmail com
> Systems Administrator
> JM Associates
>
> "Conciousness: that annoying time between naps."
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