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wneeb
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 Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2024 3:07 am Post subject: Does poorly coded games cause potential vulnerability |
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Hi everyone.
Recently when i was playing some steam games my laptop often crash and go into a pure green screen(i can do nothing except for force shutdown)
Though for most odds this is caused by unstable ram/poorly cooled cpu, my windows using mind set tells me that this might also caused by virus/malware.
Thus i installed clamav and sudo clamscan --recrusive /, however it green screened in the middle of the scan process every time.
So in the end, does poorly coded steam proton or native linux game or flatpak/appimage app that only runs as nonroot users serves a great/small vulnerability to the OS, and if this problem has a 99.9% possibility that it's caused by terrible ram/cpu, is there anything i can do about it?
ps. i'm using the openrc gnome profile with secureboot, and i've closed all network port except for ssh in iptables. |
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Ralphred
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| Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2024 3:22 am Post subject: Re: Does poorly coded games cause potential vulnerability |
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| wneeb wrote: | | if this problem has a 99.9% possibility that it's caused by terrible ram/cpu, is there anything i can do about it? |
Run memtest from a livecd/usb, that'll allow you to discount "bad ram" if all the tests pass. |
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steve_v
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| Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2024 3:32 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | playing some steam games my laptop often crash and go into a pure green screen |
| Quote: | | clamscan --recrusive /, however it green screened |
Two completely unrelated (but relatively hardware intensive) tasks causing a hard freeze with graphical corruption: Almost certainly a hardware (or possibly driver) problem.
The screen turning green specifically, that sounds GPU related to me.
| Quote: | | my windows using mind set tells me that this might also caused by virus/malware |
Anything is possible, but this is extremely unlikely. The vast majority of malware exists to steal something from you (usually in secret), crashing the system would both defeat that purpose and call attention to its activities.
Windows users crying "virus" every time something unexpected happens is a direct result of decades of FUD peddled by antivirus vendors to sell you products you don't need. 99% of the time such anomalies are just garden-variety bugs.
| Quote: | | possibility that it's caused by terrible ram/cpu, is there anything i can do about it |
The same things one would always do when diagnosing hardware problems: Start with the easy stuff (examine system logs, monitor for overheating, run memory tests, try a different OS to eliminate driver issues), move on to physical/electrical problems (reseat cables and connectors, check power supply voltages, hit BGA chips with freeze spray to aggravate bad soldering), then if nothing reveals itself, start replacing parts.
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