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What Impact Has Meltdown/Spectre Had on YOUR Systems?

posted by Fnord666 on Friday January 19 2018, @01:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the tell-us-how-you-REALLY-think dept.

martyb writes:

SoylentNews first reported the vulnerabilities on January 3. Since then, we have had a few stories addressing different reports about these vulnerabilities. Now that it is over two weeks later and we are *still* dealing with reboots, I am curious as to what our community's experience has been.

What steps have you taken, if any, to deal with these reports? Be utterly proactive and install every next thing that comes along? Do a constrained roll out to test a system or two before pushing out to other systems? Wait for the dust to settle before taking any steps?

What providers (system/os/motherboard/chip) have been especially helpful... or non-helpful? How has their response affected your view of that company?

What resources have you been using to check on the status of fixes for your systems? Have you found a site that stands above the others in timeliness and accuracy?

How has this affected your purchasing plans... and your expectations on what you could get for selling your old system? Are you now holding off on purchasing something new?

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  • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Friday January 19 2018, @06:45PM (3 children)

    by RS3 (6367) on Friday January 19 2018, @06:45PM (#624826)

    You're quite safe, but ... it was about 1994, I had been using the Internet for ftp, archie, etc., but not the web yet. Although we (company I worked for) had a LAN, we still did a lot of sneakernet. I remember putting a 1.44M floppy in a machine and got an error that it was write protected. That's odd, machine was running MS-DOS, nothing was running- just command.com prompt. Why was anything accessing the floppy drive, let alone trying to write to it? I don't remember what tools I had, but being a low-level guy I did some sector scanning, disassembler / debug on the stuff and found my first computer virus. One of the other employees had downloaded and run something on that machine (modem days). Somewhere I had gotten a scanner- Norton, McAfee? don't remember- but the little bugger had replicated itself to many floppies around the company, so we had to do a mass scan, then be vigilant by using the write-protect shutter and anti-virus software. Sigh.

    Point of the story: even sneaker-net can carry malware, and Microsoft's "autoplay" makes it worse (I _always_ turn autoplay OFF for all drives / globally).

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @08:10PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @08:10PM (#624869)

    Is that really the term that was used for the situation?