AMD "Virus" is no AMD virus at all
FUD the second time in two months
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| Well, we hope that our readers will be smart enough to see through the
| stupid bomb?s cloud to the truth below: the viruses might affect Windows
| AMD64 version, but not because of any chip-level AMD weakness, rather
| because the virus is attacking Windows 64-bit x86 version, just not
| the Itanium IA64 version.
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| Let's say that again -- virus scanner maker states "new virus affects
| Windows (AMD64)", and the press reports "AMD processors affected by new
| virus", when in reality, all Celeron Ds, Pentium Ds, Core 2 Duos running in
| 64-bit mode also suffer the same bug. Daamit.
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| You'll notice too things. One: the virus affects 32-bit Windows too --
| shucks, there goes the AMD-only problem! Two: its 64-bit version mentions
| nothing about any Athlon-related vulnerability; this is quite simply a
| virus that affects Windows x86-64 in both Intel and AMD forms.
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