• Microsoft yanks all of this month’s Windows patches for “devices with impacted AMD processors”

    Posted on January 9, 2018 at 05:49 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    Let’s hear it for beta testing.

    Early this morning, Microsoft officially announced that it was pulling all of this month’s Meltdown/Spectre patches for folks with AMD processors.

    That’s just the tip of the iceberg.

    Computerworld Woody on Windows.

    UPDATE: Kevin Beaumont has a sobering report on the status of antivirus vendors cooperating (or not) with Microsoft:

    this has been incredibly messy for everybody involved. My belief is organisations shouldn’t rush these patches out. They need to carefully test and see where they need to mitigate the vulnerability.

    As I’ve said many, many times before, there’s no reason to install any of the patches yet. In spite of what you saw on TV, or read in the newspaper — or what you heard from a Windows security “expert.”

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