Friday the Thirteenth ...
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No wonder, my computer at work was acting quirky this morning.
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Originally Posted by grannyrod,Jul 13 2007, 10:51 AM
Bet they'll know next time not to play with you! Too bad they didn't see the perfectionism in your home projects like I did, or they would have known.
Now back to the demonic possession of DrC's computer...
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... which exhibited the following symptoms:
- overnight reboot, it was awaiting its hardware password this morning. The fan sounded odd.
- HW PW produced first WinXP startup screen, then black for a long time, followed by a short Blue Screen of Death pronouncing a core dump.
- Hard off-on (two of 'em) got past the HW PW but no farther.
This, combined with the odd fan noise, suggests to me that the fan died, it overheated and rebooted, then got pretty cooled down waiting for the HW PW; but then it quickly got heated up again. I'll see if I can get dust out of the fan and so on and try rebooting it with it sitting on a cooling pad (one of those with its own fans).
We'll see ...
HPH
- overnight reboot, it was awaiting its hardware password this morning. The fan sounded odd.
- HW PW produced first WinXP startup screen, then black for a long time, followed by a short Blue Screen of Death pronouncing a core dump.
- Hard off-on (two of 'em) got past the HW PW but no farther.
This, combined with the odd fan noise, suggests to me that the fan died, it overheated and rebooted, then got pretty cooled down waiting for the HW PW; but then it quickly got heated up again. I'll see if I can get dust out of the fan and so on and try rebooting it with it sitting on a cooling pad (one of those with its own fans).
We'll see ...
HPH
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Must be something to this Friday the 13th business. I've got a workstation here that's infected with some sort of Trojan which so far seems to be unknown and is dropping viruses one of which, L6Y7trig.exe, is also unknown.
On the upside it doesn't seem to be network aware and the antivirus software is quarantining the viruses as they are spawned.
I'll be spending the better part of the afternoon throwing a gauntlet of anti-malware stuff at it and will probably end up having to reinstall XP.
Wheee!
On the upside it doesn't seem to be network aware and the antivirus software is quarantining the viruses as they are spawned.
I'll be spending the better part of the afternoon throwing a gauntlet of anti-malware stuff at it and will probably end up having to reinstall XP.
Wheee!
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Originally Posted by DrCloud,Jul 13 2007, 11:26 AM
... which exhibited the following symptoms:
- overnight reboot, it was awaiting its hardware password this morning. The fan sounded odd.
- HW PW produced first WinXP startup screen, then black for a long time, followed by a short Blue Screen of Death pronouncing a core dump.
- Hard off-on (two of 'em) got past the HW PW but no farther.
This, combined with the odd fan noise, suggests to me that the fan died, it overheated and rebooted, then got pretty cooled down waiting for the HW PW; but then it quickly got heated up again. I'll see if I can get dust out of the fan and so on and try rebooting it with it sitting on a cooling pad (one of those with its own fans).
We'll see ...
HPH
- overnight reboot, it was awaiting its hardware password this morning. The fan sounded odd.
- HW PW produced first WinXP startup screen, then black for a long time, followed by a short Blue Screen of Death pronouncing a core dump.
- Hard off-on (two of 'em) got past the HW PW but no farther.
This, combined with the odd fan noise, suggests to me that the fan died, it overheated and rebooted, then got pretty cooled down waiting for the HW PW; but then it quickly got heated up again. I'll see if I can get dust out of the fan and so on and try rebooting it with it sitting on a cooling pad (one of those with its own fans).
We'll see ...
HPH
Of course, all of that took a few hours and it was the second time I've had him out this month so I'm thinking of adopting him and taking him as a dependent on our taxes.
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Originally Posted by raymo19
I've got a workstation here that's infected with some sort of Trojan which so far seems to be unknown and is dropping viruses one of which, L6Y7trig.exe, is also unknown.
I had one of those once (except, of course, I got it from a different sort of place, a bowling blog, as I recall...), and it replicated itself randomly, driving me crazy. Eventually, the services came out with a fix for it (both an anti-virus scan update and a special removal program).
Now, I stay far, far away from those bowling blogs. HPH
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Originally Posted by DrCloud,Jul 13 2007, 12:55 PM
Been surfing those, um, racy web sites again, Mike? Everyone knows that's where you pick up weird viruses.
That is until today. I've tried everything from Ad-aware to SpyBot and there's still some process running in the background that's accessing the hard drive even in Safe Mode. It gets real busy when I connect it to the Internet.
It's all good though. Monday morning I'll nuke it and do a reinstall.