e-GeForce 7300 GT fan issues

The fan on this card, which I purchased last March, seized. It appears to be removable. Instead of returning it, I'm going to see about adding another fan (I just need to find one that will clamp on without issues).

I ordered another one eariler in the week and will use this one while I'm repairing the other's fan (in fact, I'll order an additional fan for when the new one's fan breaks).

Why am I putting up with replacing the fan and buying an additional fan for the new one? Because the card is AWESOME! The fan issue totally sucks and the card is still under warranty, but I can tell that these cards have bad fans and this is a design defect, I believe. If I can replace the fan with one that clamps on at the same clamp-on points, I'll be happy. If not, I'll return both before the warranties end and get the fanless versions.

Click here for some TigerDirect reviews of this card.

EDIT: WHOA... I just opened the box of my replacement 7300 and saw that they've changed the fan to something that is hopefully more robust. It is an open fan and is black plastic. EVGA must have had too many complaints and decided that a new fan was in order. I'll post pics later.

Modsecurity again

Reading through some of my unread modsecurity mailing list emails, I found this tidbit (pretty simple, actually):

egrep '^Message:' modsec_audit.log | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

I edited it to read: egrep 'message:' audit_log | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

I see the following after running those commands:

927 mod_security-message: Access denied with code 403. Pattern match "index.php" at REQUEST_URI [id "1005"][rev "2"] [msg "index.php usage, suspicious activity"] [severity "ALERT"]
728 mod_security-message: Access denied with code 403. Pattern match "cmd.txt" at REQUEST_URI [id "1005"][rev "2"] [msg "cmd.txt usage, suspicious activity"] [severity "ALERT"]
668 mod_security-message: Warning. Pattern match "/robots\\.txt" at THE_REQUEST [severity "EMERGENCY"]
377 mod_security-message: Warning. Pattern match "/*\\.shtml" at THE_REQUEST [severity "EMERGENCY"]
171 mod_security-message: Access denied with code 500. Pattern match "\\?\\?\\?\\?\\?\\?\\?\\?\\?\\?" at THE_REQUEST [severity "EMERGENCY"]
141 mod_security-message: Access denied with code 403. Pattern match "/xmlrpc.php" at REQUEST_URI [id "1003"][rev "2"] [msg "lupper-type attack attempt"] [severity "CRITICAL"]
127 mod_security-message: Warning. Pattern match "/\\?M=D" at THE_REQUEST [severity "EMERGENCY"]
127 mod_security-message: Access denied with code 403. Pattern match "index2.php" at REQUEST_URI [id "1005"][rev "2"] [msg "index2.php usage, suspicious activity"] [severity "ALERT"]
115 mod_security-message: Access denied with code 500. Pattern match "!(^$|^application/x-www-form-urlencoded$|^multipart/form-data;)" at HEADER("Content-Type") [severity "EMERGENCY"]
82 mod_security-message: Access denied with code 403. Pattern match "adxmlrpc.php" at REQUEST_URI [id "1004"][rev "2"] [msg "lupper-type attack attempt"] [severity "CRITICAL"]
51 mod_security-message: Access denied with code 403. Pattern match "login.php" at REQUEST_URI [id "1005"][rev "2"] [msg "login.php usage, un-kosher activity"] [severity "ALERT"]
48 mod_security-message: Access denied with code 500. Pattern match "\\." at REQUEST_URI [severity "EMERGENCY"]
29 mod_security-message: Access denied with code 500. Pattern match "\\.\\." at THE_REQUEST [severity "EMERGENCY"]
12 mod_security-message: Access denied with code 500. Error normalising REQUEST_URI: Invalid character detected [0] [severity "EMERGENCY"]
8 mod_security-message: Access denied with code 403. Pattern match "index.php" at POST_PAYLOAD [id "1005"][rev "2"] [msg "index.php usage, suspicious activity"] [severity "ALERT"]
7 mod_security-message: Access denied with code 500. Pattern match "/calendar" at THE_REQUEST [severity "EMERGENCY"]
5 mod_security-message: Warning. Pattern match "/bash" at THE_REQUEST [severity "EMERGENCY"]
4 mod_security-message: Access denied with code 500. Pattern match "wget\\x20" at REQUEST_URI [severity "EMERGENCY"]
2 mod_security-message: Access denied with code 500. Pattern match "\\?&" at THE_REQUEST [severity "EMERGENCY"]
2 mod_security-message: Access denied with code 500. Pattern match "/root\\.exe" at THE_REQUEST [severity "EMERGENCY"]
1 mod_security-message: Access denied with code 403. Pattern match "/cmd.exe" at REQUEST_URI [id "1002"][rev "2"] [msg "codered/nimda attack attempt"] [severity "ALERT"]

The logs go back to May of 2007.

I did the same for my snort logs:

egrep 'Classification:' alert | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

14441 [Classification: Misc activity] [Priority: 3]
1892 [Classification: Web Application Attack] [Priority: 1]
1857 [Classification: Attempted Information Leak] [Priority: 2]
1613 [Classification: Misc Attack] [Priority: 2]
1147 [Classification: access to a potentially vulnerable web application] [Priority: 2]
442 [Classification: Executable code was detected] [Priority: 1]
7 [Classification: Potentially Bad Traffic] [Priority: 2]
3 [Classification: Attempted User Privilege Gain] [Priority: 1]
3 [Classification: Attempted Denial of Service] [Priority: 2]
2 [Classification: Detection of a Network Scan] [Priority: 3]
1 [Classification: Attempted Administrator Privilege Gain] [Priority: 1]

This Snort log is 7.4M in size.

Pretty cool, eh? I thought it would be cool to share this!