Re: Re(2): Possible new virus?

From: Chris Berry (compjma_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/13/03

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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:25:54 -0700

    >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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