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Can you get infected by Intel Management Engine?
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<blockquote data-quote="Nagisa" data-source="post: 904894" data-attributes="member: 73722"><p>As far as I know, there is a standalone chip on motherboards that Intel adds since 2008. That chip contains a minix based operating system and has all control on the hardware; direct access to RAM, ethernet, etc. All the time wheter the computer is running or not. It can't be disabled, or blocked by software firewall as it has its own operating system. They say it's kind of running at ring -3, so it has even higher privileges than system management control.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Mode[/URL]</p><p></p><p>Is it possible to get infected by a malware that exploits this chip on older systems?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nagisa, post: 904894, member: 73722"] As far as I know, there is a standalone chip on motherboards that Intel adds since 2008. That chip contains a minix based operating system and has all control on the hardware; direct access to RAM, ethernet, etc. All the time wheter the computer is running or not. It can't be disabled, or blocked by software firewall as it has its own operating system. They say it's kind of running at ring -3, so it has even higher privileges than system management control. [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Mode[/URL] Is it possible to get infected by a malware that exploits this chip on older systems? [/QUOTE]
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