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Users can do a lot by avoiding poisoned emails and their attachments, and by avoiding sites that host drive by downloads. The latter includes most torrent sites, adult sites and so forth. Less fun sure, but better than....
Users can do a lot by avoiding poisoned emails and their attachments, and by avoiding sites that host drive by downloads. The latter includes most torrent sites, adult sites and so forth. Less fun sure, but better than....
Err, that stuff has nothing to do with Meltdown and Spectre.
Actually NOT true. A malicious program needs to run on your computer for these things to have any effect. For PCs, the principal source is good old malware that you get from email or drive-by downloads.
Servers are a different story if they virtualize as almost all do. A malicious program can be run by a malicious client and get access to everything on that processor, and perhaps the blade.
In typical Microsoft fashion, the cure seems to be worse than the disease, and ironically it seems AMD machines are the most affected by the poor patch, even though they are the least affected by the vulnerability.
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