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I have a 7th gen Intel i5. I know most of you are very vocal AMD advocates. But I would like an honest reply. If I stay away from torrents, stick to safe websites. Am I fucked?

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>Intel
>Am I fucked?

Not at all OP. You have nothing to worry about.

Thenk for honest comment.

Most desktop workloads won't see much of a difference after the patch, so just patch up and move on, it's enterprise where Intel is gonna get ass blasted.

Thanks man. I'm done with Intel. Getting a Ryzen next time.

Yes, you're still fucked.
Any malicious advert can escalate itself to ring-0 priviliges and do whatever the fuck it wants.
Even CSS can pull off this exploit.

Check for yourself. Benchmark the apps where you care about performance.

Then apply the windows patch.

Then benchmark the same as before and compare performance. Odds are most performance intensive user apps will have something like

>stick to safe websites. Am I fucked?
well arbitrary JavaScript code can launch the meltdown attack so no

Yes you are royally fucked

>If I stay away from torrents
Search engine plugin.

Way to not understand anything, idiot.

Just get the patch. If all you do is play games, you won't even feel the performance hit, or barely at all.

t. R5 1600 user

uBlock Origin exists.

How do you set the global settings in ublock? I treid to block scripts and cookies but it only works on a site by site basis and I have to first load up the site and expose myself before I can block it

What is this?

I don't visit shady ass websites. And don't browse porn on my PC. My chances of getting malware through an advert is close to nil. Also, uBlock has never failed me. It either blocks everything or doesn't let me enter the website, by giving a warning.

>Most desktop workloads won't see much of a difference after the patch
This is incorrect, please stop spewing this.
It's quuite the opposite, most desktop workloads are affected. Only gaming a few other things are not syscall-dependant for performance.

He many not notice a great difference since he's using a modern CPU with PCIDs. This will significantly reduce the performance impairment after patching.

I'm mostly a casual gamer. I play CSGO, and a few basic games which get released for free. I do the occasional 3 tab browsing. And watch a shit ton of movies and TV shows on it. Nothing intensive desu. How badly are these tasks affected?

Just install the fix, unless you're running specific kinds of business workloads you won't notice a difference in performance.

Do you run a cloud service in your home that hundreds of thousands of people connect to every second? Do you need move thousands of very small files around your nvme ssd 24/7?

If no, you won't be affected.

Thanks. Good to know.

qbittorrent

Use uMatrix along with Bluhell Firewall if you're on Firefox-based browser.

uMatrix blocks all scripts except the main website's by default.

Online gaming (I/O syscalls on the networking stack) may be impacted a little bit. The rest seem a collection of workloads where you won't realistically see a difference on a 7th gen i5.
>Nothing intensive
"intensive" is not a problem. CPU intensive tasks are fine. What's not fine any more are syscalls, especially on older CPUs without PCIDs.

Gamed online all night after the patch yesterday, no noticeable difference.

my host doesnt even have a browser. I use virtual machines for everything and even have adblocker and umatrix in hte virtual machines.
Thanks to intel I can still get my shit shoved in by pajeet and vlad.

I was asking about umatrix. I dont have a mouse right now so I cant chekc what I actually replied to.
Umatrix allows first party shit by default and this isnt acceptable for me. Is there a way to change the defaults?

telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/01/04/global-microchip-flaw-much-worse-feared-could-haunt-us-time/

How bad is it really guys?

wait for the gameserver to be patched then...

This is just the y2k panic all over again

Ryzenfag here, in all seriousness if you're not working for a datacenter then you have nothing to worry about in terms of gaymen in using Intel. don't listen /r/amd faggots. the ring-0 exploit needs to fixed soon though, or you can be fucked just by visiting websites with malicious JS or CSS codes.

stop the "datacenter" meme.
Anyone who uses virtualmachines is at risk.
I do not work at a data center but I have a couple vps and use vms for everything. My host doesnt even have a web browser. This shit has put me at risk and resulted in me having wasted hundreds of dollars and months of learning this shit. I did all of this to protect myself and now I find out its all wasted effort.

in the OP's usecase, it seems like he isn't gonna use VMs. he'll be fine until the next CPU architecture redesign comes around.

the intel shillforce is out in full force right now spaming this "it doesnt affect the average joe" meme to minimalize the damage and prevent public outrage.
If the public isnt pissed then intel doesnt have to be held accountable. Stop shilling for inetl with that shit meme.
Everyone either directly or indirectly is affected by this.

how are graphic design, video editing, 3d, digital illustration etc affected?

were sitting here in a graphic studio full of intel processors and were kinda worried as well.
how about the company server? we use it quite often and some work straight from the server. how is that affected?

If the problem is not my end then there's not really much reason to worry about.

I saw a little dip in performance regarding rendering with Revit 2017 and Vray, not really noticeable unless I was clocking the results. Around a 3% lost in performance on my tests.

Just install the patch on one of the machines and test yourself.

Is there a list of models affected somewhere?
Google isn't helpful.
I want to know about my core2duo laptop

Intel lover here. If you don't own a server you'll not notice the changes. Also you should know that hackers can make secure sites insecure at any moment.

I see. So I should update?

That's not a question. You should update no matter what.
>If you don't own a server you'll not notice the changes
Bullshit.

Umm okay. How do I update it? I made a computer for the first time recently. So I'm really nooby at this stuff.

Apply your regular updates as soon as you see them. I get that you're a Window user. Apply Windows updates and make sure that the patch is activated. See Don't forget to install Common Sense 2019 Deluxe Edition

Who knows what process is vulnerable and leaks data.
Just stay offline.

Just disable JavaScript in your browser.

>Even CSS can pull off this exploit.

Got sauce for that? It seems even nastier than javascript causing harm

motherfucker

It's more complex than that. You need a native binary (or a JIT that you can trick into the right translated binary).
Then you need to be exploit the kernel memory you can read. It can help going around address space randomization but you still need a vulnerable program. Another option is to read credentials from there but timing isn't trivial.

Umm okay. regular Windows update it is. I don't have to contact my vendor for a BIOS update or anything right?

You should check with your BIOS vendor if updates addressing serious vulnerabilities are available, but not for this issue.
Don't skip Common Sense 2019.

Okay thanks.