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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 149 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (19 children)

Requires kernel-level access. Also AMD is "releasing mitigations," so is it "unfixable?"

[–] Bjornir@programming.dev 51 points 3 months ago (5 children)

If you have kernel access you can already do almost everything so a vulnerability on top of that isn't that bad since no one should have kernel access to your computer

[–] randompasta@lemmy.today 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

~~Most~~ All antivirus software runs at kernel level

[–] Bjornir@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Which is precisely the reason you shouldn't use an AV apart from the one packaged with Windows

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