As an Ubuntu household I am not affected either, apparently, as well as winning the luck of the draw on my CPUs not being vulnerable. It would be mighty scary to be in either of those categories though, considering the code to run this attack is in the wild and it can run on a webpage that hits millions of users.
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I see, well I ditched all dependencies on MS in 99, ran it under VMware until 2001 when I got on OSX plus Linux of course
I do run it a bit as VMs in QubesOS only these days actually, for accounts to reach into the Digital Gulags haha…
I don't know so much about it, but it sounds like even stuff running in VMs isn't safe from this, if you are browsing the web on a VM then this exploit could affect the host. Be careful out there.
Sure, but it would be limited to that one VM
On any given day I run 3-7 or more all in the one GUI that is the core function of QubesOS, so anything with risk goes into a separate one :-)