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‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections (www.wired.com)
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[–] Bjornir@programming.dev 49 points 1 month ago (5 children)

If you have kernel access you can already do almost everything so a vulnerability on top of that isn't that bad since no one should have kernel access to your computer

[–] randompasta@lemmy.today 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You mean like Crowdstrike?

[–] HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

~~Most~~ All antivirus software runs at kernel level

[–] Bjornir@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Which is precisely the reason you shouldn't use an AV apart from the one packaged with Windows

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