Re: Re(2): Possible new virus?

["Chris Berry" <compjma () hotmail com>]

> From: Wirefire Systems Administrator <sysadmin () wirefire com>
> The technician that I was on
> the phone with described the symptoms, described that he had replaced the 
> fan
> in the machine he had on hand, inspected the fan, and found it to be
> operating properly. The machine was still displaying the error and emitting
> the tone from the PC speaker after this, which led me to suspect something
> other than a hardware error.

I don't remember you stating that before (or at least not as clearly), yes 
that's very suspicious, though I suppose it could be a bad sensor.  Hmm, 
could you be having a temperature problem even with the fan working?  
Perhaps no cpu grease or something?

> I had the technician read me the error which
> appeared on the screen word for word. I then went to the most obvious 
> source
> I could think of: google. I typed in the phrase exactly as it appeared on 
> the
> screen to the technician, and google returned 0 (zero) search results. If
> google doesn't have a single entry with a certain phrase, then that is
> suspicious.

Agreed, though sometimes it just means you're typing the wrong thing.

> Even if it were a hardware error, someone, somewhere, would have
> had a fan die,  and would have typed in the error to some list requesting
> information on it. Since it didn't exist in the Google database, and I was
> becoming suspicious, I posted a question to this list. This is a security
> basics mailing list, and as far as I can tell, it is meant to facilitate 
> the
> asking of questions. I'm not anywhere near a security expert, and I'm
> apparently not of the calibre troubleshooter that you are, but I merely ask
> for a bit of leeway in this subject, as I was unable to ascertain the
> problem.

That's reasonable, I think we (especially me) misinterpreted what you were 
trying to tell us.

> If this is a hardware problem, then I am sorry to have wasted your
> bandwidth on this issue, but if it's not, even if it's not malicious code,
> and it is a bug of some kind, then it's at least a little bit interesting,
> imho.

Agreed, let us know if you find out anything else, I admit to being fairly 
intrigued.

Chris Berry
compjma () hotmail com
Systems Administrator
JM Associates

"You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are 
the same decaying organic matter as everything else." -- Tyler Durden

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