QUOTE(pandy @ Feb 10 2018, 05:06 PM)
I saw that link but didn't dare to test my browsers. Who knows what it'll do to your system.
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It says IE10 and Iron is vulnerable. FF, Edge and - lo and behold - k-mel is not. How could that be? k-mel most certainly isn't patched. Maybe I don't have the latest Iron. But I thought MS had forced patches on us for this on Win10, so their browsers ought to be safe. Not true?
Yes it's strange that MSIE10 is vulnerable while MS Edge is not (granted they use different engines, but still same company). Firefox/Gecko and Chromium should be patched by now, but then it must be updated in each browser brand (like Iron). Maybe K-Mel is too old to be exploitable (like allegedly Opera12), or too defensively built (like allegedly Pale Moon).
Also (just in case), note that these patches only prevent Spectre exploits through javascript, malware on your computer can still exploit Spectre without any need for a browser.