• On Security: Patch Lady Susan Bradley explains why you might — or might not — want to protect your machine from Spectre and Meltdown

    Posted on February 25, 2019 at 03:57 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    Microsoft keeps releasing patches for Spectre, Meltdown, and similar vulnerabilities — tons of them. Do you really need them?

    Even if you have the patches installed, they may not be working. That’s intentional — in some cases you have to manually enable the patch.

    Here’s a quick overview of the problem, a look at Steve Gibson’s free InSpectre tool that’ll poke at your system, and some solid recommendations for when you might be at risk, and when you can gleefully thumb your nose.

    Out this morning to all AskWoody Plus members, in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.7.0.

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