My Intel based PC security

I have read that Intel plans to incorporate McAfee security into its hardware.   If Lenovo has made a statement on how this will impact IBM Intel based PCs would you kindly point me to it. I would like to read it.
I have an Intel Centrino chip in my X200 which I assume will not be impacted by this announcement, unless of coursse, a firmware upgrade was planned to incorporate the McAfeee security software. If it were offered, I would want to be able to bypass it. My concern would then move to any future purchases of Intel based PCs.
Fortunately my IBM desktop is AMD based. It is several years old and when it expires I will look for yet another one that is AMD based. Though Apple makes a good PC, they are very closed and dispise all things open ...so not on my buy list.
My list of a few concerns, re: McAfee software embeded in a hardware chip ...
The impact of a false positive on my PC ... would I be able to boot it
I like to choose my security vendor and one AV running at a time is my rule.
firmware upgrades have dire consequenceson PCs if they fail. They can brick a PC.
removing a virus not detected my McAfee ... Oh glee!   The BIOS is my favourite place to hang out.
delay in booting while McAfee upgdates its definition file ... where is this little gem going to reside?
imapct to open systems :   Linux ?
a McAfee upgrade failure ... can Intel bypass it and will the PC boot? If it does (hmm take a guess, the user has no AV running until it gets fixed.
Of course, these are all speculative problems and may end up not being the impact I assume them to be. However, I would like to see what Lenovo's direction is on this very important issue. Will Intel remain a strategic component in Lenovo products if the security software is imbeded into Intel Chips.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180942/Intel_McAfee_deal_baffles_security_analysts
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Hello,
I think that people tend to forget that Microsoft Windows NT ran on MIPS, DEC Alpha and PowerPC CPUs as well as IA32/IA64 hardware instruction set processors, and that Windows CE supported ARM, MIPS and Hitachi CPUs as well. While the majority of their expertise lies in IA32 (x86/x64) and IA64 (Itanium) code, Microsoft does have some experience with other instruction sets. And that's not even getting into the XBOX360.
Security on chip is great for the enterprise, but I am unsure what sort of consumer demand there is for it. To me, the main advantage of "Windows 8" (or whatever it will be called) will be in battery life. Consumers and businesses do seem to want computers that run for a full day on a single chart, and ARM's power-sipping cores are one way to provide that.
I think web browser virtualization entered the mainstream when Microsoft introduced Windows Vista in 2006, and before that, we had Ronen Tzur's Sandboxie (an awesome program) and GreenBorder, which was acquired by Google.
As you pointed out, many attacks rely on social engineering. They are also typically financially-motivated, which is what, in part, makes worms like Stuxnet and VB.NEI (a/k/a MyWife, Blackmal, and so forth) so interesting, because they do not have a financial connection. In some respects, those are steps back to an earlier time, when the goal of malware authors was damage. Getting back to virtualization, though, if your goal is to steal a person's money, it really doesn't matter if it is done via malware or XSS or phishing. Those are the things which users need to be protected against, and that's why security software now does things like packet inspection and detection of application vulnerabilities, since those are ways into computer users' systems.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
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