Like a heartbeat.
“That’s it,” she muttered.
She ran a deeper scan. Hidden deep inside the powercfg profiles was a string of hexadecimal she didn’t recognize. Not Microsoft’s signature. Not Intel’s. It was a tiny, self-replicating loop of code—harmless, almost elegant—that had been voluntarily migrating into the parked cores. It would sleep there, dormant, until the system tried to unpark the core. Then it would jump to the next parked core. core parking windows 10
She dug into the advanced power settings. The usual suspects: PCI Express, USB selective suspend. Then she saw it. Like a heartbeat
She didn't disable core parking again.
