[Gllug] Microcode update

Dave Jones davej at suse.de
Fri Jul 12 13:06:35 UTC 2002


On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 11:48:10AM +0100, robin.c.smith at bt.com wrote:
 > All your cpu are belong to us!
 > CPU virus writing time!!!

1. the microcode is proprietory format. You'll be hard pressed to
   reverse engineer the meaning of those updates to a sufficient
   level where you could do something useful, let alone malicious.

2. I reboot, microcode update goes away.

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