THanks. Just to make it clear, I am a bona fide techtard. I use Chrome and Firefox. I never updated Chrome or saw any notice about it, I will do a search and find out how. Windows 10 updates are breathing down my neck right now. I use the free Avast.
Is all the above sufficient, do you think?
Since this is a hardware error, not a software error, the updates will all have to be implemented. Avast is only good for viruses and malware from outside. They may cover this as well, we’ll see.
The browsers and the OS, Windows 10, have not as yet released any updates That I am aware of to fix this, but they are working on it....................
I think it is very unlikely you need to do anything. But you can check to see if you have a Intel CPU Usually your case will have a sticker on it if it does, or hold down the Widows key (bottom left, with a flag on it) and the Pause/Break key at the same time and let go, which should give you that basic info. Or type msinfo32 in your run command (Windows key and the r key) and hit OK for a lot of info. You can also run dxdiag if you want more interesting data.
If it is Intel then download and run the Intel® Driver & Support Assistant and it should tell you what needs to be updated, and provide what is needed. Thanks be to God .
No, it will not be sufficient. Anti-virus will also not be sufficient.
But at the same time, it’s hard to say yet exactly how easy this problem is to actually exploit against you - assuming you aren’t somehow tricked into downloading malicious software.