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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 65228" data-source="post: 703714">Get a Chromebook unless you really need to use Windows.If you go for Windows, get a system with an AMD processor and not Intel. Intel is vulnerable to Meltdown whereas AMD processors aren&#039;t, and Meltdown is the vulnerability which can be performed from a malicious web-page via JavaScript.For example if you run malware with standard rights, it can still open a remote connection for a backdoor, intercept keystrokes, use up your network resources for DDoS attackers (botnet functionality), etc. So Spectre isn&#039;t so much devastating than Meltdown in my opinion, but harder to exploit and mitigate at the same time.Keep your software up-to-date and watch what you&#039;re doing. I don&#039;t trust Intel at all especially after their down-playing and trying to bring other companies into their mess with their public replies - the CEO also is sticking to the bare minimum shares which seems dodgy given the company was reportedly expected to rise to in-humane revenue growth within the next few years a few months ago.Yeah that was irritating, I was using Intel at the time. I am pretty sure you needed to be executing code under the context of ring 0 to deploy the ring -2 exploit though (so you&#039;d already be in kernel-mode = game over). But it was still ridiculous</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Deleted member 65228, post: 703714"] Get a Chromebook unless you really need to use Windows. If you go for Windows, get a system with an AMD processor and not Intel. Intel is vulnerable to Meltdown whereas AMD processors aren't, and Meltdown is the vulnerability which can be performed from a malicious web-page via JavaScript. For example if you run malware with standard rights, it can still open a remote connection for a backdoor, intercept keystrokes, use up your network resources for DDoS attackers (botnet functionality), etc. So Spectre isn't so much devastating than Meltdown in my opinion, but harder to exploit and mitigate at the same time. Keep your software up-to-date and watch what you're doing. I don't trust Intel at all especially after their down-playing and trying to bring other companies into their mess with their public replies - the CEO also is sticking to the bare minimum shares which seems dodgy given the company was reportedly expected to rise to in-humane revenue growth within the next few years a few months ago. Yeah that was irritating, I was using Intel at the time. I am pretty sure you needed to be executing code under the context of ring 0 to deploy the ring -2 exploit though (so you'd already be in kernel-mode = game over). But it was still ridiculous [/QUOTE]

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