Worm Disables CPU Fan, Causes Overheating

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Be on the lookout for a worm that causes your CPU fan to stop working, leading to overheating. Since the eAr+h\/\/0rm32.B worm (that’s what I named it) is an actual earthworm, the threat of it spreading is minimal.

The creature had crawled into his £360 old laptop through an air vent and wrapped itself around the internal fan, leading to a total breakdown. The worm itself was burned and frazzled having been 'cooked' by the overheating internal workings of the Gateway laptop computer.
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Guess this beats the half eaten sandwich that I found in a customers computer?
Damn thing was crusted to the bottom of the chasis by the time they brought it to me to fix.
 
Worst machine I had come in: local warehouse got flooded from a hurricane, talking 3-5" of water. Computer in question was on the floor, so it got flooded out good. Soon as we opened it, a bazillion cockroaches were in it. I tossed the side cover back on it, tossed the system in a garbage bag and sprayed roach killer in the bag. Tied it up and set it outside all day. Killed all the roaches but damn what a mess of roaches to clean up!
 
koolaidkitten said:
...how does one get a sandwhich inside their computer o_O
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Damn LOFEB (lack of effin edit button)! I have seen pogs, pennies, peanut butter and who knows what inside of floppy drives, card readers, optical drives. Amazing what kids will put inside those.
 
lol... awesome spin on things Steve :)

still this worm wouldn't affect my pc, i'm certain that if all my fans shut down (cpu, vga, case) my pc functions fine because of the massive amounts of metal in there (its how i stress my overclocking limits)...
 
For those of you who have tornado fans need not to worry... he only thing you need to worry about is clean components....
 
Ockie said:
For those of you who have tornado fans need not to worry... he only thing you need to worry about is clean components....
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I think my Panaflow would make short work of this worm as well. Unless it was a snipe, that may cause damage
 
My friend in college worked at a Dial-up ISP when he was in high school. An old man came in complaining that they had cut his service off because of non-payment. Turns out he was feeding in 20 dollar bills to the floppy like you do at a pop machine...I lol'd on that one.


Ive had a lady at work bring me a machine that probably had several hundred cigarette butts in it from where her 13 year old daughter was hiding them after she smoked them...


-bink
 
Now that's a bug to watch out for. It can bypass any firewall and is OS independent.
 
koolaidkitten said:
...how does one get a sandwhich inside their computer o_O
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It was actually the customers husband or some other member of the family.
They were having problems with the pc, so said member opened the case, and decided to do some troubleshooting themselves and aparently wanted a tasty sandwich to aid them in their troubleshooting process.
I assume they got distracted, and had to set said sandwich down...which happened to be inside the case...of which was hastily closed up at a later time, and left to sit for a while.
When they decided to get the machine worked on in our shop (which to my guess was a few weeks later or more), it was discovered, with a bite mark or 3 out of it, after scraping the sandwich off the bottom of the case, and calling them with the actual problem of the computer, I did offer them the sandwich...however they declined.
 
My cat always brings "presents" after it rains and the ground gets good and soaked... need to start checking my computer more often!
 
k1pp3r said:
I think my Panaflow would make short work of this worm as well. Unless it was a snipe, that may cause damage
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not if it crawled up there while it was off, fans take a few seconds to get rolling
 
RADEoN said:
not if it crawled up there while it was off, fans take a few seconds to get rolling
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but its never off, so he would get hit with the cpu fan, then the case fan he is thrown into. then spattered on the wall
 
I was thinking,"well this worm won't affect me, since I'm watercooled and I don't even need my fans to run. Hell, me just breathing has more cfm than my five 120 fans."

Then I read the article and saw they were talking about a real worm.
 
The worst was when my friend was a CompUSA tech, and he found Cockroaches in the PC all burnt to a crisp and the customer wondered why the PC didnt start any more. :D
 
Worse experience I've had was when I was doing community work for my IT Technican job at the community college, this couple brings in their computer to get repaired which didn't turn on. My buddy and I open the case to see that the machine was literally clogged with cigarette ashes which was an accumulation of years of sucking in the ashes. Turns out that the PSU got fried in the process which in turn killed the motherboard and CPU. Then they come up with this genius question "Okay? Can we play games on it now?". At first when I opened the case, I had to stop myself from gagging at the immense amount of ashes.
 
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