On Fri, 9 Jun 2017 09:15:43 +1200, Peter Reutemann wrote:
'Microsoft's security team has come across a malware family that uses Intel's Active Management Technology (AMT) Serial-over-LAN (SOL) interface as a file transfer tool. The problem with Intel AMT SOL is that it's part of Intel's ME, a separate chip inside Intel CPUs that runs its own OS and stays on even when the main CPU is off.'
This <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Technology> says “AMT is designed into a secondary (service) processor located on the motherboard”, and this <https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/active-management-technology> says “AMT is an auxiliary processor built into the high-end Intel Q chipsets with an i5 or i7 CPU”. It seems clear in either case that it is not “inside the CPU”, but a separate chip. Intel itself <https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/intel-active-management-technology.html> says this is a “feature of Intel Core processors with Intel vPro technology”. So if your machine doesn’t boast “vPro”, then it doesn’t have this.