Comment on Almost unfixable “Sinkclose” bug affects hundreds of millions of AMD chips
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 3 months agoYeah, turning an exploit into one that survives a fresh install is a huge deal.
Comment on Almost unfixable “Sinkclose” bug affects hundreds of millions of AMD chips
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 3 months agoYeah, turning an exploit into one that survives a fresh install is a huge deal.
FierySpectre@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s always been a thing that the only way to completely be safe after malware is yeeting the old system and getting a new one…
And even then there have been actively exploited issues where the system gets re-infected when reloading the data from a backup. (My memory is a bit rusty on that one, but it was just data being restored, nothing that should install anything)
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
There has been a small element of risk, but it’s low enough that this meaningfully increases it.