Dell Advising All Customers To Not Install Spectre BIOS Updates (reboot/boot issues, instability)

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The Spectre & Meltdown mess continues with Dell now recommending their customers do not install the BIOS updates that resolve the Spectre (Variant 2) vulnerabilities. These updates have been causing numerous problems for users including performance issues, boot issues, reboot issues, and general system instability.

Due to this, Dell EMC has updated their knowledge base article with the following statement advising customers to not install the BIOS update and to potentially rollback to the previous BIOS if their computers are exhibiting "unpredictable system behavior".

 

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Intel: Stop deploying our buggy Spectre CPU patch; new fixes coming


Intel appear to be saying the same as Dell - don't install our buggy attempts to sort this mess out.

It all makes me wonder what the vendors' priorities are - users security, vendors reputations.............