I updated my windows 7 yesterday and another today with no dramas kb 4056894
My PC has an ancient intel chip from 2006
Windows defender disabled due to Avast
On askwoody theres this
Microsoft yanks all of this month’s Windows patches for “devices with impacted AMD processors”
Posted on January 9th, 2018
Early this morning, Microsoft officially announced that it was pulling all of this month’s Meltdown/Spectre patches for folks with AMD processors.
https://www.askwoody.com/2018/micros...md-processors/
January security patches are out - No known exploits
https://www.askwoody.com/2018/januar...oming-shortly/
Risk Based Security brings some sanity to the Meltdown debacle
https://www.askwoody.com/2018/risk-b...tdown-debacle/
Bottom line is still the same for us personal browser users
Using a Script blocker has become a necessity
From ransomware to bitcoin mining
- entering a site in trusting mode isnt smart
Script Safe for Chrome
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...hbdbdgdf?hl=en
No Script for Firefox etc - the newest version with FF57 not great like the browser
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...ddon/noscript/
No Script for palemoon - older more familiar version
https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/noscript/