Fuss over AMD "virus" squashed

AMD MOVED to discount claims by a Symantec engineer that its processors were particularly vulnerable to the Bounds virus.

According to VNU Net, a Symantec engineer has now changed his bog to reflect AMD concerns. The wire reports that Richard Baker, AMD's north European marketing director, said the problem lies in X86-64 and not with specific processors.

That's pretty much what we said last week after alarmist reports suggested that Mr Bounds Virus could tell which chip it was attacking - presumably by feeling whether the pins of the processor had a German feel to them.

See AMD "virus" is no AMD "virus" at all.

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