Re: Possible new virus?

[Stephen Pedrosa Eilert <spedrosa () mailandnews com>]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Chris Berry wrote:

> 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.

And where in the post does it say that the fans have actually failed? All
we have is an error message, and a beep in the speaker. AFAIK, it could be
done by software.


[]'s

Stephen Pedrosa Eilert



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