Pentium 4 533MHz FSB confirmed for early Q2
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Excerpt: Roadmaps seen by us show that early in Q2 Intel's top desktop chip will be a 2.40GHz processor which comes in both 400MHz and 533MHz front side bus versions, both of which include 512K level two cache.
In the same period, Intel wil make a 2.26GHz Pentium 4 and a 2.20GHz Pentium 4 available with the 533MHz front side bus, and available in boxed versions.
For the first quarter, however, we will see Intel introduce its boxed 2.2GHz "Northwood" Pentium 4, and we believe the date for that is still the 7th of January, as we noted yesterday.
During the course of Q1 2002 and Q2 2002, Intel will gradually displace the .18 micron, 400MHz front side bus versions of the Pentium 4 until by the end of the 2nd quarter the lowest speed revs will be 1.90GHz and 1.80GHz.
For its Celeron processors, as noted yesterday, Intel will introduce a 1.30GHz .13 micron part early in the first quarter, and will also offer boxed versions at 1.20GHz, 1.10GHz and 1GHz. By Q2, the top line Celeron will be a 1.40GHz part, with the remaining Celerons being 1.30GHz and 1.20GHz parts.
Earlier, PC manufacturer roadmaps we have seen, show that Intel intends to introduce "value" Pentium 4 parts during the second half of next year.
The Inquirer
At this point, without logging in, and as long as the user session is still alive, any local user has the ability to start any program assigned to the hot key -- no matter what permissions.
This leads to a host of situations where the range of results could be just merely an annoyance (dozens of browsers open) or actual exploitation. Local users could execute an known vulnerable application (such as some sort of daemon) and exploit it remotely as it is running under administrative priveledges. That is, of course, if a daemon is actually assigned to the a hot key.
There are limitations in this situation though. Hot keys are disabled once logged in as an account besides that of the first/administrative. And to my knowledge so far, there is not a way to get the program to execute and be available on any desktop besides that of the first/administrative.
Fixes:
- Disable hot keys.
- Microsoft has been notified and a patch should be available soon