Re: Regarding 2.8.8 on updated Win10

I use TightVNC from a Win7 lappy to a Win10, both fully patched, with no 
problems encountered so far. The Win10 is an AMD 4-core equivalent to 
the i3 (it serves as a streaming video station for my TV and I do a 
little animation rendering on it which it does well enough).

On 1/31/2018 11:21 AM, Bob Kreycik wrote:
>
> Frag,
>
> I just started testing 2.8.8 on two updated Windows 10 systems during 
> the past few months.  I am completely up-to-date on the Updates pushed 
> by Microsoft, including KB4056892.  This is the January update which I 
> believe includes the mitigations for intel speculative execution 
> issues.  I just tested tightvnc after receiving your email, and it is 
> still working in my case.  However, there are two caveats I should 
> mention:
>
> 1.I am using Windows 10 Pro for _both_ client and server systems, and 
> since you are using it from Linux, I don’t know if that could account 
> for the differences;
>
> 2.My intel processor is a Haswell (4^th -gen) Core i7 desktop model, 
> and it does not appear that intel has produced mitigation for that 
> model. I’m not sure whether that also impacts the MS update’s relevance.
>
> I did just read that MS has put out an update available only on their 
> catalog.update.microsoft.com site which is supposed to “undo” the 
> problematic changes due to the earlier patch.  The number is 
> *KB4073290*, so you may want to check it out.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bob Kreycik
>
>
>
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