On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 18:13, Mark Weaver wrote:
> Terence J. Golightly wrote:
> > List,
> >
> > I just started my machine after leaving it off while away from home. I
> > noticed that when I booted the machine, right over the third? column
> > where the devices are listed with there associated interrupts was a
> > rectangular section colored green with four greek letters shaped like
> > "Es" (I can't remember the name of the letter its been too long) spaced
> > like this: E EEE. The machine hung after that and I was forced to reset
> > the unit. When it rebooted, I got a bios checksum error so I restarted
> > again and reset the bios to optomized settings and the machine restarted
> > (didn't see the colorized box again though). It did kill my menu with
> > my logout buttons and a couple of buttons some other panels.
> >
> > I noticed that it took a long time for the file systems to be mounted
> > and when it did final come up (> 1min) I logged in and opened gqview.
> > The box locked up I tried the <Alt><SysReq> R,S,E,I,U,B key sequence but
> > to no avail. I reset it. I'm back up and creating this document.
> >
> > My first question is obvious: How to get rid of the virus?
> >
> > How to check why the alt sysrqst key sequence isn't working?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks with Urgency,
> >
> > Terry
> >
> > P.S. I hesitate to go in as superuser, I don't know if the virus is
> > scanning for passwords or not.
>
> Hi Terry,
>
> I seriously doubt you've got a virus. If you do, and I don't think thats
> what it is, then that would be something very new. Secondly, what is
> "alt sysrqst key sequence"? I've never heard of that for restarting a
> linux machine.
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 17:13, Mark Weaver wrote:
<snip>
Mark;
I think he's referring to the series of steps in
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/mdoc/ref/ts-system-freeze.html
Exactly.
<snip>
> To my knowledge there are only two viruses in the linux world and they
> haven't been around for quite some time.
I don't think it is really a virus only that I noticed this on the POST.
It just reminds me of the bad old days of dos viri. I am having some
strange things happening when it starts. fsck apparently check all my
partitions just root after a freeze.
> So I really don't think thats
> your problem. It sounds more like a hardware problem. Could be bad RAM
> that is causing the kernel some very nasty headaches.
Yeah going to have to consider that after I check my disk partitons.
>
> Has this machine
> ever acted strangely before?
> Are you sure no one else had access to the machine while you were away?
No just me. The machine has only one account on it.
> Did you load any new software on the machine before going away and
> shutting it down that may have been compromised?
No not recently.
Thanks,
Terry
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