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"Fireball" Virus?
Hi, Just want to ask if anyone has heard of a virus that forces the CPU to 100% until it fries? I'm just asking because a couple tech guys at 2 diff places have written me inquiring about this. A Google search doesn't yield anything. This is one of the letters I received with a description: "I have dealt with two separate PCs over the last two days that suddenly started blue screening after the same student had been on them. Just the prior day he was telling me about this "Fireball" virus he has on a thumb drive that instantly infects a PC when you plug it in. He says it works by forcing the CPU to 100% and keeps taxing it until it fries. Then we have the two computers they each took a dumb after he had his hands on them, with the very symptoms he describes this virus does. I found that if you reset the mobo to factory settings you can then reformat the drive and reload Windows." I wrote back that I think it's funny that the student plugged his FD in knowing it had a virus, and it only did that on his PC's...perhaps he was testing something new out? Any thoughts on this would be appreciated Thank you