On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 21:00, Matt Burnett wrote: > Actually I just remembered the viruses can break current hardware. There are > many CPU's out there that can be overclocked in software. The PowerPC 750 > (aka G3) cpu using in Apple computers is one of them. And I doubt anyone > will try to argue that OCing can kill the cpu. Isn't it possible to erase/overwrite the microcode ROM of Intel CPU's? What would make for a nasty virus.... and may just be what "the experts" expect as the "digital perl harbor". (The downside [upside?] is that testing microcode viruses is ...uhm... somewhat limited :) Cheers, Frank
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