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• Take this seriously
• Stay clam - it is a real issue with complex solutions that will shift priorities
• Patch your operating systems, browsers, and other software
  • IMPORTANT NOTE: Windows patch needs to be manually enabled

• Anti-virus products may cause problems with Windows updates - patch may not be available until anti-virus updates are available

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These papers are technical descriptions of the bugs.  Meltdown works on Intel processors only, Spectre works on Intel, AMD, and ARM processors.

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Microsoft released patches today - the patch is not enabled by default and has to be enabled manually after the patch is applied.  In addition, the patch will not be available for systems that are running incompatible anti-virus - some AV packages make calls into kernel memory that will cause a blue-screen-of-death if the patch is applied and enabled.  More information from Microsoft is available here

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