Re: Modern hw-killing virus feasible

[Peter Tonoli <anarchie () METAVERSE ORG>]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Robert Sandilands wrote:

> One processor have a way of doing software upgrades to it's
> "micro-code". That may also have interesting effects depending on your
> ability to recover from this as with the motherboards mentioned.

AFAIK, microcode changes are only valid until the processor is reset, at
least under x86.

Peter.

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