PC freezes randomly

Vikki Sixx said:
This is the last messages on Event Viewer before failure ...
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Just re-read your message...are you saying there was a failure between 15:41 yesterday and 9:11 this morning when you booted up?

If so, Windows doesn't seem to have noticed anything at all which isn't possible, ime. There should be at a minimum a kernel power error message about rebooting without shutting down first (and I'd expect some stuff beforehand to explain the cause of the crash).

You didn't happen to filter or something by mistake? There's like stuff missing if your pc hard shutdown at 15:40 yesterday and you put it on at 9:11.
 
I have been trying the changes around the RAM and it seems to be stable for the last fw days. The problem was still happening with only one RAM stick (16GB) on one of the ports but now that I have switched ports I have no issue ... which tend to point to a faulty Memory port.

If this is the case, what are the options to remedy the situation?
- change motherboard?
- only run with 16GB of RAM instead of 32?
 
Your motherboard is fooked, change the motherboard.

It's the motherboard. It's l aways the motherboard
 
Rickster said:
Nothing, just a temp sensor that is incorrect.

If anything on the motherboard besides the CPU got to 120c, something would have definitely popped.
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You'd be surprised. Southbridges can fry eggs when motherboards start failing.

Same goes for Northbridges when they were still a thing.

They can sustain higher temps than the actual CPU before burning out, but will generally cause a machine to lock up without warning when they get too hot.
 
So I thought the issue was gone ... it's not. Still freezes randomly from time to time. :(
 
Bye bye motherboard.

I remember when I once accidentally spilled a glass of coke near my computer. I later discovered that a few drops of coke had managed to splash inside my computer and basically slowly ate away at the motherboard. Only noticed when the pc randomly rebooted multiple times and I took it apart to see what was going on. It lasted for a bit longer but eventually died. The parts all worked fine in a new motherboard.
 

Supply chain attack at CPUID pushes malware with CPU-Z/HWMonitor - Bleeping Computer​

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Hackers gained access to an API for the CPUID project and changed the download links on the official website to serve malicious executables for the popular CPU-Z and HWMonitor tools.

The two utilities have millions of users who rely on them for tracking the physical health of internal computer hardware and for comprehensive specifications of a system.

Users who downloaded either tool reported on Reddit recently that the official download portal points to the Cloudflare R2 storage service and fetches a trojanized version of HWiNFO, another diagnostic and monitoring tool from a different developer.

The name of the malicious file is HWiNFO_Monitor_Setup, and running it launches a Russian installer with an Inno Setup wrapper, which is atypical and highly suspicious.

Users reported that downloading the clean hwmonitor_1.63.exe from the direct URL was still possible, indicating that the original binaries were intact, but the distribution links appear to have been poisoned.

The externalized download chain was also confirmed by Igor’s Labs and @vxunderground, who reported that a fairly advanced loader using known techniques, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) is involved.

“As I began poking this with a stick, I discovered this is not your typical run-of-the-mill malware,” stated vxunderground.

“This malware is deeply trojanized, distributes from a compromised domain (cpuid-dot-com), performs file masquerading, is multi-staged, operates (almost) entirely in-memory, and uses some interesting methods to evade EDRs and/or AVs such as proxying NTDLL functionality from a .NET assembly.”

The researcher claims that the same threat group targeted users of the FileZilla FTP solution last month, suggesting that the attacker is focusing on widely used utilities.

The downloaded ZIP is flagged by 20 antivirus engines on VirusTotal, although not clearly identified. Some classify it as Tedy Trojan, and others as Artemis Trojan.

Some researchers on Virustotal say that the fake HWiNFO variant is an infostealer malware.

BleepingComputer has contacted CPUID to learn more about what happened, the date of the compromise, the affected versions, and what impacted users should do. A spokesperson has pr

"Investigations are still ongoing, but it appears that a secondary feature (basically a side API) was compromised for approximately six hours between April 9 and April 10, causing the main website to randomly display malicious links (our signed original files were not compromised). The breach was found and has since been fixed." - CPUID
The same person told us that the hackers hit them at a time when the main developer was away on holiday.

Currently, it appears that CPUID has fixed the problem and now serves clean versions for both CPU-Z and HWMonitor.
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www.bleepingcomputer.com

Supply chain attack at CPUID pushes malware with CPU-Z/HWMonitor

Hackers gained access to an API for the CPUID project and changed the download links on the official website to serve malicious executables for the popular CPU-Z and HWMonitor tools.
www.bleepingcomputer.com www.bleepingcomputer.com
 
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