Microsoft released non-bootable patches and blue screens for Windows 7 on PCs with AMD chips
This article is in the series: Overview of vulnerabilities on Intel, AMD, ARM chips: Meltdown and Specter. Please read all the articles in the series to get information as well as take steps to protect your device against these two serious security holes.
Microsoft has released a new update for AMD-based computers that are using Windows 7 to fix the unbootable and legendary blue screen (BSOD) when installing patches to resolve security vulnerabilities from Two ways to attack Meltdown and Specter.
Link to download Windows 7 KB4073578 update manually.
There is no information from Microsoft about this patch that will address the vulnerabilities directly related to two ways to attack Meltdown and Specter. However, after this update was released, there were quite a few users installed and there were no reported issues.
If you are using Windows 7, please proceed with this security update!
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