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I license for Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 or other version should not be needed to report a bug. Further, Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 and Windows Embedded Standard 2009 were (and might still be) offered as trials for evaluation. Although heinoganda has kindly offered his modified patches, it is still preferable that Microsoft actually does its job properly and fixes its product. If one can afford to take the time to report the issue, it may be beneficial to do so.

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It's hard to generalize. Personally, I actually HAVE disabled both on my network facing system. I have enough protection (and discipline) in my environment here that malware never even gets close, and I especially have several layers of security blanket that keep my browsers and applications from visiting known bad sites online. Not to mention I turn that stupid UAC off (making a security Meltdown kind of a moot point). I guard the borders better and don't worry as much about policing microsecond by microsecond operation, which sounds like it may be your philosophy too. But everyone's needs are different. Would I suggest disabling the mitigations for the general public, especially those who are not technically savvy? Probably not. My point here is that even when disabled there's a significant performance penalty. I guess this must be because besides the memory manager reload operations that were added (and which can be disabled) the kernel and system software in Windows have been recompiled with changes to do certain operations a different, less efficient way to avoid meltdown concerns. I'm always looking for more detail on this, and I appreciate the discussion. The surprising part is that hardly anyone's talking about this! I guess it must be a combination of folks in general doing things that are not easily measurable and their systems already being burdened-up with a bunch of performance-sapping software, so what's one more little slowdown? -Noel

From a post by @412070391 (which was scrubbed with the msfn server crash):

@FranceBB If @pixelsearch2's system is XP, rather than POSReady, there's obviously no point in him reporting this to Microsoft. What's needed is for as many people as possible with genuine licensed actual POSReady systems to report it, as MS are actually shipping a buggy update (three times!) to a still supported operating system!

New build of Firfox 45ESR SSE: test binary: https://o.rthost.cf/gpc/files1.rt/firefox-45.9.10-20180714-3a5d2ffb0-win32-sse.7z repo: https://github.com/roytam1/mozilla45esr Changes since my last build: - requestIdleCallback() implementation for win32, hope I implement it right. (f8014a5f9) - import changes from tenfourfox: - closes #463: fix name of pref and pref on requestIdleCallback (a87d157ba) - #504: hook up valueAsDate to correct pref (80c343933) (b9c80fa57) - (a late) bump revision to 45.9.10 (7ca311caa) - import changes from tenfourfox: - #509: M1348772 M1364345 (push and splice) (c7075f452) - #509: M1260509 implement String.padStart/padEnd (needed for testing) (8b2316f2d) - #509: tests (fb3fd442d) (c3386964d) - import changes from tenfourfox: - closes #509: M1364346 parts 2+3 (unshift) (41a749208) (3a5d2ffb0)

New build of basilisk/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.cf/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.1.win32-git-20180714-1862bf7a3-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.cf/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.1.win64-git-20180714-1862bf7a3-xpmod.7z diff: https://o.rthost.cf/basilisk/UXP-xp-gitdiff-20180606.7z PM28XP pre-release build: Win32 https://o.rthost.cf/palemoon/palemoon-28.0.0b2.win32-git-20180714-1862bf7a3-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.cf/palemoon/palemoon-28.0.0b2.win64-git-20180714-1862bf7a3-xpmod.7z Official repo changes since my last build: - Fix local link handling in Reader Mode. (caa2ac23c) - Remove telemetry from NarrateControls.jsm. (dac5ea478) - Bug 1456652 - SameSite cookie Reader view patch bypass (6f64e487f) - Make the page visibility API pref-controlled. (cbd52d48f) - Revert "Bug 1456652 - SameSite cookie Reader view patch bypass" (6a8ba4785) - Merge pull request #606 from Ascrod/master (0c5085ace) - Fix typos in comments - memory.properties (f3c0ab1ea) - Merge pull request #609 from janekptacijarabaci/devtools_locales_memory_typos-in-comments_1 (77800ce3a) - Reconfigure Pale Moon (764d0af25) - Version bump to beta 3 (8c4897f28) - Rename some remaining strings "firefox[-branding].js" to "basilisk[-branding.js]" (or [application].js) (85b31d3ea) - [BASILISK] "about:privatebrowsing" - use "Basilisk" instead of "Firefox" (0b2e92f51) - Restore pref -- enhanced tiles aren't dead yet. (cdace870d) - Merge pull request #611 from janekptacijarabaci/firefox_name_2 (cf06d0d05) - Merge pull request #612 from janekptacijarabaci/firefox_name_1 (accd3f8c0) - Pale Moon: Restore osx private browsing indicator (86d78f68c) - Pale Moon: Fix positioning of caption buttons in application-drawn titlebar (882aabaf2) - DevTools - display newlines in some console messages (a1b9326fb) - Merge pull request #615 from janekptacijarabaci/devtools_console_new-lines_1 (48ee9becf) - Merge pull request #613 from SpockMan02/mac-privatebrowsing-mask (4483ac5c5) - Fix typo (f0d9eddfb) - Make nsAtomicFileOutputStream::DoOpen() fail if the file is read-only. (daf0b3077) - Add event.srcElement (the alias for event.target) (e6af24eb6) - Merge pull request #619 from SpockMan02/issue-586 (382956b2d) - Merge pull request #620 from SpockMan02/patch-5 (f15849458) - Merge pull request #623 from janekptacijarabaci/dom_event_srcElement_1 (3b7ffb477) - Roll back to ANGLE/2845 (4f2ecd53a) - Re-apply genericDraw* fixes (4706e8bed) - Restore emulated functions for OS X 10.8/10.7 (fb0b7cdb5) - Switch from ShCompileOptions to int. (31166cc4a) - Fix incorrect namespace use. (4f5813094) - Ad workaround for broken B5G6R5 format in Intel driver. (8481fa25d) - Merge branch 'ANGLE-rollback' (70dd5e7c6) - Fix Build Bustage - with "--enable-debug" (71a1c4775) - Bug 1346501. Don't mark every image as visible when a frame is created for it (53cf12d6d) - Bug 1346501. Remove mFrameCreateCalled from nsImageLoadingContent, it is now unused (3945eb4c1) - Remove recover instruction results after bailouts. (4103fc0a8) - Merge pull request #632 from janekptacijarabaci/images_tab-closing_never-ending_1 (70e0e5ccb) - Issue #336: Mouse position tracker not set even if chrome is still visible on fullscreen (012c67fbe) - Issue #336: Mouse position tracker not set even if chrome is still visible on fullscreen (d47908921) - Update mozharness reqs. (7e07c1ba5) - Merge pull request #633 from FranklinDM/issue-336-fix (d4b0944e0) - Merge pull request #628 from janekptacijarabaci/build_bustage_debug_1 (ec32d19a8) - Update requirements.txt (97331d377) - Issue #634 - aAddon.markAsSeen is not a function newaddon.js (1862bf7a3)

New regular/weekly KM-Goanna release: https://o.rthost.cf/kmeleon/KM-Goanna-20180714.7z Changelog: Out-of-tree changes: * update Goanna3 to git 54887c52d..4038e3c24: - Make nsAtomicFileOutputStream::DoOpen() fail if the file is read-only. (9ced22633) - Update mozharness reqs. (9cb81d2cc) - Update requirements.txt (4038e3c24) * My changes since my last build: - Port TenFourFox changes: + Ported changes: bug1385395, bug1375599, bug1381157, M1395138_M1400003_M1261175 * Notice: the changelog above may not always applicable to XULRunner code which K-Meleon uses.

New Palemoon 27 Build! * This build is on par with official 27.9.4 build. 32bit https://o.rthost.cf/palemoon/palemoon-27.9.1a1.win32-git-20180714-4038e3c24-xpmod.7z 32bit SSE https://o.rthost.cf/palemoon/palemoon-27.9.1a1.win32-git-20180714-4038e3c24-xpmod-sse.7z 32bit noSSE https://o.rthost.cf/palemoon/palemoon-27.9.1a1.win32-git-20180714-4038e3c24-xpmod-ia32.7z 64bit https://o.rthost.cf/palemoon/palemoon-27.9.1a1.win64-git-20180714-4038e3c24-xpmod.7z source patch against official palemoon: https://o.rthost.cf/palemoon/sources_patches_20180602.7z Official repo changes since my last build: - Make nsAtomicFileOutputStream::DoOpen() fail if the file is read-only. (9ced22633) - Update mozharness reqs. (9cb81d2cc) - Update requirements.txt (4038e3c24) My changes since my last build: - Port TenFourFox changes: + Ported changes: bug1385395, bug1375599, bug1381157, M1395138_M1400003_M1261175

For users of LvLLord's patcher to avoid EventID 4226 only (if you don't know what I'm talking about, you probably don't need it): MS has released yet a newer TCPIP.SYS v. 5.1.2600.7510 in KB4291391. The current LvLLord's Patcher 2.23d remains capable of changing the half-open tcp limit, a testimony of how a well written patcher resists passing time.

heinoganda and dencorso - thanks again. MalwareBytes is working. But I kept uninstalling everything and now I'm back to Win 2000.