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First post, by rick6

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Heard of this?

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-compo … ootkits-1301356
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2965872/compon … rcher-says.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/blackhat-x86 … osed,29800.html

From what i understood even my i5 750 isn't free of danger, but to be honest for this to take action by the time someone gained this type of access level they could have done already all kinds of harms to the computer and user data, so it seem highly unlikely to happen.
Unless someone comes up with a version of the Win32/CIH virus (Chernobyl virus) to exploit this flaw since the news are out.

Nonetheless, these are interesting news.

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Reply 1 of 5, by mockingbird

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I remember reading this rumor when Core2 was released. I brought it up somewhere, and they told me it was nuts. I think they were right.

It may have been propagated by AMD, because they had no answer to Core2 until Kuma came out at what seemed like years later.

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Reply 2 of 5, by rick6

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Anyways i think that the main targets would most likely be servers, hence why intel seems to be already releasing some patch for them. I don't think there's any real danger to the avegare user.

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Reply 3 of 5, by awgamer

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>even my i5 750

i5 branding is only eight years old.

Reply 4 of 5, by awgamer

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rick6 wrote:

Anyways i think that the main targets would most likely be servers, hence why intel seems to be already releasing some patch for them. I don't think there's any real danger to the avegare user.

This flaw needs root access, so unlikely for security hardened machines like servers, while it's a field day for vulnerable machines, like say machines running windows, which has a large selection of root access exploits. Your idea of what would be targeted is wrong, user machines are often targets, botnet drones for ddos attacks for example.

Reply 5 of 5, by rick6

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awgamer wrote:
rick6 wrote:

Anyways i think that the main targets would most likely be servers, hence why intel seems to be already releasing some patch for them. I don't think there's any real danger to the avegare user.

This flaw needs root access, so unlikely for security hardened machines like servers, while it's a field day for vulnerable machines, like say machines running windows, which has a large selection of root access exploits. Your idea of what would be targeted is wrong, user machines are often targets, botnet drones for ddos attacks for example.

You're right and it makes sense. I didn't express correctly though. The common user is the most easy target, but servers is were the real damage can be done. It would be really hard to gain root access to one server, but it can be done, hackers seem to be able to do miracles sometimes, they never cease to amaze me.

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