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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (56771)	4/29/1999 1:51:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) of 1570751

<Unbelievable. This small Canadian company found a way to display the hidden CPU ID in the PIII, and posted the program on its web site. So Inte goes and gets Symantec (Norton Antivirus) to include it in its list of malicious programs/web sites!> Kevin, if I recall correctly, the "program" forces a reboot of a Pentium III system, then blocks the disabling of the CPU ID using a surreptitious boot-up routine. What if that boot-up routine decided to do other stuff besides open up the CPU ID for the world to see? I think this is pretty close to a virus-like program. Tenchusatsu

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