Hi malware fighters,
Do you have a pentium computer. You could be open to a cyber attack: http://www.fcw.com/article94010-04-10-06-Print
Quote from this:
“vendors are so driven to beat the competition to market and include new features that they have no idea how to write secure Web applications, he said. He predicted it will take years for such applications to be made secure retroactively.”
polonus
Very interesting, says he using his trusty AMD, which doesn’t get very hot under the collar ;D
I wonder if there isn’t some vulnerability if the same sort of safeguard to protect the chip and motherboard overheating in AMD chips ?
I don’t think so, my AMD overheats like mad I can’t even play movies on it 
How about buying a better cpu cooler(or ease down the frequencies if you have it overclocked) ???
Something is wrong, Staind. I am on my 3rd AMD cpu and have never had one of them to overheat. It is not common for an AMD cpu to overheat except maybe when overclocked too much. In fact, AMD’s cool running cpu’s is what makes them an overclocking favorite.
Check your cpu fan speed. Maybe it is not running as it should. Dust build-up in the fan & heat sink?
One of the major problems with overheating is poor thermal contact between the cpu and the heatsink. Many retail built systems use stock retail heatsink and fans and they have a contact strip to stick and provide thermal contact between the two surfaces. This isn’t as efficient as using something like Arctic Silver thermal paste or Antec Silver Thermal Compound, expensive but worth it.
My CPU has been overclocked by just over 20% and it is running at 37-40c whilst preparing this post and that is with my variable speed CPU fan running at 1500rpm. I can take it up to just over 3000rpm, which is more than adequate for summer conditions.
I also have a good ThermalTake Soprano case with two 120mm fans 1 front and rear, plus a 9mm fan in the side window, this promotes a good airflow through the case.
Generally I have never had an overheating problem with AMD, before my system upgrade with this case my temps were about 8c higher across the board.
Its been my experience that the older AMD processors ran a little bit hotter, but the new Atlon 64s run much cooler when compared to new P4s. My Athlon 3000+ runs at 39°C with Antec Silver thermal compound.
You are right, xistenz. My 3200+ is also running at 39c while the motherboards is running at 25c. My older AMD cpu’s ran about the same temperatures (as well as I remember) while running at much slower speeds.
My Turion 64 Mobile 1.8 GHz Chip never gets hot. As long as the fan is getting air. When I am using it on a desk though it may get warm from lack of cool air getting to the fan. But not anymore I got a $30 chil pad made by Targus that gets the notebook off the ground and has fans built in that sucks out all the air from under it (hot air from heat of Notebook on the bottom) this way the cooler air gets to the fan.
See it by clicking the link.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=6211752&type=product&id=1074788100200
My good old 1.6Ghz Duron is working at 39-42 C. Fan works at ~2000 RPM, temperature in the room ~ 25 C. I never had overheat problem, even when temperature in the room was 30 C. 
Justin,
That’s an smart thing to do.
Thank you CharleyO. I thought it is because now with the chill pad it does not get the smallest bit hot.
AMD overheating is the biggest myth, made up by Intel fanboys.
I was using AMD 1GHz, a K7 Thunderbird core. Temperatures were within every normal range. Now using Athlon XP 2400+ a Thoroughbred core, same.
I’ve seen more Intel Preshot akhm Prescott cores heating way over the normal range of temperature. So, AMD CPU overheating blabla is pure BS.
the Pentium 4 and AMD chips are HOT HOT HOT so is the PowerPC 97x (AKA G5)
the solution would be to use cooler running processors like:
the New intel Core Solo and Core Duo Processors
also intel’s new codename Conroe and Memron chips will be very cool as well
AMD is also working on cooler processors
Those are cool just because they’re made in 65nm fab technology. Smaller means cooler.
Rejzor, the newer PowerPC Chips are made in the 65nm fab process and so is the Pentium 4 EE both are hot chips