The Virus

ORIGIN:

The Virus has always been annoying and daunting for end users and the internet. It all started off with some people having fun and now it's run wild with everyone tempted to crack someone else's PC and cause anxiety.

But as the expansion of Viruses has gone wild so has the  recognition of viruses and the misconceptions of one.

MISUNDERSTANDING:

When a typical end user has their computer crash, ending up with a blue screen or shutting down, they will throw up their arms and scream to the heavens "It's a VIRUS" But not in all cases, most of the times these are HARDWARE PROBLEMS.

THE VIRUS ILLUSION

Most of the time the problems are:

• CPU Fan errors: The CPU fan or heatsink fan (usually stock Intel, check out my older post on New Heatsinks) stops running, usually because of bearing/motor problems or it has stopped running at all. You can easily fix this by buying a new heatsink and installing it yourself, follow my guide in the "Air Cooling" post.
• CPU/GPU overheating: The heatsink, as mentioned before has its fan busted, so it can't cool the heatsink anymore, and as a result the CPU goes over the limit. There is a TJ-Junction, which is the limit of a temperature which a CPU will withstand before telling the motherboard to close off all connections and shut down. Same for the graphics card, or GPU; except it won't shut the computer down but stop running itself, and the monitor will not show anything. This problem can be solved again with a new heatsink for the CPU and for the GPU try fixing it another way, I will talk about this some time.
• Hardware Errors: Sometimes the hardware may become damaged over time, or your computer may have been handled roughly. Dropping your PC while transporting it will result sometimes in bending the motherboard, which may tear some crucial circuits and components and their tracks. This may result in faulty and bad connections with your separate hardware and may cause your computer to shutdown in a certain phase or not turn on at all. An easy fix, just install a new motherboard, which I will talk about in a later post.
• Power Supply errors: The Powersupply is the most important bit of the computer, without its clean supply of power the PC won't run at all, well other people may think otherwise as the HDD stores all their money-earning files (and porno, admit it). Sometimes the Powersupply will cease to function over long periods of time and may become noisy, fans covered with dust and the components inside may wear away. With electricity flowing through it for long hours they will tend to deteriorate. But some may last for long times, in most cases people are using generic Powersupplies which will stop running with simple bumps and drops. Fixing this will result in a Powersupply switch, which I again will talk about later.

Well I hope you guys reading this have learnt that NOT EVERYTHING IS A VIRUS. I hate it when people around me moan about viruses when the CPU overheats.