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Re: New virus attacks AMD processors

The Symantec write-up shows no sign of anything exotic being involved.

»www.symantec.com/security_respon···-5115-99

All I got from this is that the w32.bounds attack mucks with the import table, which of course will allow execution of arbitrary code (program thinks it's calling function X but in reality it's calling function Y).

Is there any more technical detail anywhere?

permalink · 2006-08-27 10:48:44 · Print ·

seqrets Premium join:2001-05-03 Nederland, TX clubs: ·RoadRunner Cable	Re: New virus attacks AMD processors said by dave : Is there any more technical detail anywhere? Related article: Polymorphism comes to the AMD64
	permalink · 2006-08-27 19:55:03 ·

devicenull Premium join:2002-12-01 Clifton, NJ	Re: New virus attacks AMD processors As far as I can tell, it's simply refering to the first native 64 bit virus.. Intel copied AMD64, and named it EMT64.. so I can't see how this virus is processor specific? It seems to me like someone saw this, and didn't know what AMD64 actually is.
	permalink · 2006-08-27 23:34:38 ·

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