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I use a Notebook with an AMD E2-1800 processor which did not get any microcode updates.
That means it is not quite protected against Spectre/Meltdown. In Ubuntu there is a very well explained wiki for this kind of problem. But unfortunately no information can be found for Windows 8.1 which I am currently using.
My question is, what is protected and what not for an AMD processor without microcode updates but with all the Windows updates installed?
Which system would be easyer to attack via Spectre/Meltdown: Ubuntu 18.04 or windows 8.1?
1Why do you need protection against Spectre/Meltdown? For this attack to be used your computer needs to be already infected, so what's the point? – harrymc – 2019-07-02T20:09:51.830