Meltdown and Spectre: Apple in Danger too, first updates.

Yesterday I wrote about the official announcements of those 2 serious attacks.
https://steemit.com/news/@lennstar/meltdown-of-cpus-spectre-is-hunting-you

As I wrote, the programmers are feverishly working on upgrades. (That will still make your computer slower depending on what type of program, luckily games seem to suffer nearly not at all.)

iOS / Apple too

Apple now confirmed that its iOS is also vulnerable.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208394

Updates (OS)

Win 10 already has updates, but depending on your virus scanner you may not get them. (Some virus scanners will seriously damage the system without compatibility with the new patch, do NOT install the patch manually if you are not sure.)

(Generally on Win10 3rd party virus scanners may be more dangerous then "only" using the Win10 included one, but that is a different story).

Win 7 seems to have it too, because my Win 7 rig just got this:

KB4056894 (Monthly Rollup)
Gilt für: Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1, Windows 7 Service Pack 1

Which tells you in the information the thing with the virus scanners.

Linux is still working on updates.

Updates (browser)

Firefox has released 57.0.4. with a fix, and Microsoft
for Edge and IE (KB4056890)

I am not sure, but it sounds like all those browser fixes (means they only stop viruses running in your browser but not outside programs) are not complete fixes but only making it harder to exploit the weaknesses.
Anyway you will still need to upgrade your OS.

Safari: "in the following days".

German sources:

Heise/iOS: https://www.heise.de/mac-and-i/meldung/Meltdown-und-Spectre-Alle-Macs-und-iOS-Geraete-betroffen-3934477.html?wt_mc=rss.ho.beitrag.rdf

Heise/browser updates: https://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Prozessor-Bug-Browser-Hersteller-reagieren-auf-Meltdown-und-Spectre-3933043.html?wt_mc=rss.ho.beitrag.rdf