Computers threatened by getting slowed down by up to 30% due to necessary patches...

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Catfish

^ this may be related to the latest Radeon card 'crimson' driver update.

I could give an alternative potentialcause but then I'd have to infract mesel

[Mr Quatro]

My amd radeon card is always trying to get me to update, but I don't respond.

If it works don't fix it ...

How do you stop Win 7 update? It doesn't ask me it just does it, but not that one sky posted yet ...

[STEED]

Microsoft pulls security update that freezes PCs

https://news.sky.com/story/microsoft...s-pcs-11201393

What a bunch of spanners.

Too busy snooping than fixing.

[propbeanie]

Now, how do they propose a person "roll-back" their computer if it doesn't boot? When I tried one of their fancy "snapshots", the "emergency start-up" couldn't find one... fine job Uncle Bill, fine job... I going to convert the box to Linux anyway. Just doing it a little earlier than planned... My favorite part about all of this is that I cannot find any documentation on Core 2 Duo machines being affected, so my OS did NOT ~need~ an update. I have automatic updates turned OFF... ~HOW~ did it install an update?... but I can see it from the command prompt... I was much more successful in thwarting their Win10 install than I was this.

[Mr Quatro]

MS tried to install KB4056894 today, but it said that it failed ... so thanks to Sky I turned off auto update

[d@rk51d3]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

MS tried to install KB4056894 today, but it said that it failed ... so thanks to Sky I turned off auto update

Double check. In many cases, the fail message is a fail in itself.

[Skybird]

I still think private users probably do not miss anything if delaying this patch. Its not as if the vuln erabilties intorduced by Meltdowna nd Spectre, of which there are now over one dozewn attack options known I think, can hit orivate users easily. The attacker needs his code on your PC in order to extract that data from forbidden memory sources.

Behave and by that reduce the probability of this code reaching you. That way your risk probably is smaller than if you risk to trust in Microsoft.

Linux Ubuntu and Mint should start to get new Kernels these days. But not even there I am in a hurry.

What I noticed, however, is that on quite soem websites in the past two days, response times by servers have gone way up. Occasional slow traffic at timers odf a day's high traffic phase, that is something one is used to, but this is too widespread and too general currently as if I would accept that reference as an explanation. I think those patches they applied make themselves known by degrading server performance. These patches, if they should have an mitigating effect, necessarily must slow down processor performances, you cannot avoid that, its the nature of this kind of patching that is needed. Private PCs so far do not feel much - server farms however: that is something else, there many small degradations add up.

They have plenty, plenty, plenty of optimization work to do there. Or replace hardware.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by STEED

https://news.sky.com/story/microsoft...s-pcs-11201393

What a bunch of spanners.

Too busy snooping than fixing.

https://www.computerworld.com/articl...computers.html

How unexpected.

[propbeanie]

Originally Posted by Skybird

https://www.computerworld.com/articl...computers.html

How unexpected.

This would explain my computer... the dual-core AMD "whatever-it-is" core... No known way to recover... So I guess I'll just install Linux on top of it...

The USB, or any "electronic" storage device is very finite due to its physical characteristics. They're like little capacitors that hold a charge, but eventually physically wear out from use. It used to be that you could get one thousand state changes out of early compact cards, but I haven't kept up with what their MTBF rate is now - much less than a HD, but not a BD-RW or similar.

[Eichhörnchen]

Forget your usb stick... go look for your whacking-stick

[vienna]

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[Skybird]

After patches for broken patches for broken patches by which Microsoft wanted to tackle it sbroken AMD stuff", now comes Intel and tells people to immediately stop upodating processor firmware.

https://www.computerworld.com/articl...are-fixes.html

This news made my evening. Never again shall I be called "computer paranoid"

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

This would explain my computer... the dual-core AMD "whatever-it-is" core... No known way to recover... So I guess I'll just install Linux on top of it...

Welcome to Linux. Show MS the middle finger.

Be advised that if you want to use VM/VBox under linux to get some Windows stuff or games running, many have their VBox currently messed up due to the new Linux Kernels which contain the mitigations for Spectre/Meltdown. At least under Mint I read in the major German Mint forum that several such Kernels yesterday and the day before caused problems with VBox. Probably gets fixed with time as well.

[Skybird]

We have received reports from a few customers of higher system reboots after applying firmware updates. Specifically, these systems are running Intel Broadwell and Haswell CPUs for both client and data center. We are working quickly with these customers to understand, diagnose and address this reboot issue. If this requires a revised firmware update from Intel, we will distribute that update through the normal channels.

https://www.computerworld.com/articl...l-systems.html

If you use Haswell and Broadwell: don't touch these upcoming or out-in-the-wild firmware updates.