After two months of struggle, I finally reasoned it out.
In a word: Hacker fags.
You see, I had a contaminated thumb drive and USB HD, and every time I connected either of them to my Sager, it wouldn't come up on reboot.
I was discounting all this because none of my systems are on the Internet. It did not occur to me until I tried attaching my Sager (with a fresh SW load) to the Internet here in Kosovo. I didn't have any firewall or other protection, and the machine was attacked the INSTANT that I opened a browser.
But how can you patch your system if it's under assault?
I obtained known-clean XP disks and Sager drivers, loaded it up, and took it to work (where there are upstream firewalls) and got that puppy patched up. It's now running like a champ.
Turns out that the Sager is extremely vulnerable, video-wise, to the "W32.licum" worm (the "dl.exe NTVDM CPU encountered illegal instruction" crap).
I spent about two months trying to figure this out, but I finally got it, and am running Anti-Vir, ZoneAlarm, Hijack This, and Firefox, so those hacker fags can suck my big one.
Give it a shot, and let us know what you get - mh
In a word: Hacker fags.
You see, I had a contaminated thumb drive and USB HD, and every time I connected either of them to my Sager, it wouldn't come up on reboot.
I was discounting all this because none of my systems are on the Internet. It did not occur to me until I tried attaching my Sager (with a fresh SW load) to the Internet here in Kosovo. I didn't have any firewall or other protection, and the machine was attacked the INSTANT that I opened a browser.
But how can you patch your system if it's under assault?
I obtained known-clean XP disks and Sager drivers, loaded it up, and took it to work (where there are upstream firewalls) and got that puppy patched up. It's now running like a champ.
Turns out that the Sager is extremely vulnerable, video-wise, to the "W32.licum" worm (the "dl.exe NTVDM CPU encountered illegal instruction" crap).
I spent about two months trying to figure this out, but I finally got it, and am running Anti-Vir, ZoneAlarm, Hijack This, and Firefox, so those hacker fags can suck my big one.
Give it a shot, and let us know what you get - mh
