Mb fan control & security

Leuf · 10-10-2003, 04:20 AM

A lot of motherboards nowadays have the ability to have the fan headers controlled in software. I like this in general, but what happens when someone comes along and releases a virus that messes with them? There's no security at all in accessing that function. I can't think of too many other ways a virus could actually do physical damage to the pc. Now you and I aren't going to get burned by this, but people in general are stupid. And this is the sort of thing that I imagine could be really difficult for the average person to figure out the real cause of their problems.

airspirit · 10-10-2003, 09:47 AM

Since different boards use different methods of manipulating the speed, I wouldn't be too worried about it. It isn't high profile enough for many people to bother with trying to fuxor you over, especially when there are easier targets in abundance.

DigitalPirate · 10-20-2003, 11:40 AM

All too true.
Fan controls are completely unstandardized. Besides, WTF would you want to crash someone's machine for? It's better to use it as a remote platform, or failing that, pull all of their personal info off of it. By the way, I like your signature, Airspirits. It's too bad it doesn't really work on women. They cannot understand Bash.

10-10-2003, 04:20 AM	#1
Leuf Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 56	Mb fan control & security A lot of motherboards nowadays have the ability to have the fan headers controlled in software. I like this in general, but what happens when someone comes along and releases a virus that messes with them? There's no security at all in accessing that function. I can't think of too many other ways a virus could actually do physical damage to the pc. Now you and I aren't going to get burned by this, but people in general are stupid. And this is the sort of thing that I imagine could be really difficult for the average person to figure out the real cause of their problems.

10-10-2003, 09:47 AM	#2
airspirit Been /.'d... have you? Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Moscow, ID Posts: 1,986	Since different boards use different methods of manipulating the speed, I wouldn't be too worried about it. It isn't high profile enough for many people to bother with trying to fuxor you over, especially when there are easier targets in abundance. __________________ #!/bin/sh {who;} {last;} {pause;} {grep;} {touch;} {unzip;} mount /dev/girl -t {wet;} {fsck;} {fsck;} {fsck;} {fsck;} echo yes yes yes {yes;} umount {/dev/girl;zip;} rm -rf {wet.spot;} {sleep;} finger: permission denied

10-20-2003, 11:40 AM	#3
DigitalPirate Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: A basement room Posts: 22	All too true. Fan controls are completely unstandardized. Besides, WTF would you want to crash someone's machine for? It's better to use it as a remote platform, or failing that, pull all of their personal info off of it. By the way, I like your signature, Airspirits. It's too bad it doesn't really work on women. They cannot understand Bash.

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