<em>Soon after the publication of information about the vulnerabilities of modern processors Specter and Meltdown, Intel introduced the first updates, designed to reduce the risk of new potential attacks.</em>

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<strong>Intel is preparing another patch against the Specter vulnerability after users began to report that the latest fix was causing problems with system reboots. Accordingly, </strong>the company now recommends that its partners stop installing the original patch and instead begin testing a new, improved version.

Executive vice president and manager of the data center, Navin Shenoy, said in an official blog that the company "identified the root cause" <strong>of the instability of systems based on Broadwell and Haswell processors, and last weekend gave partners a new correction to run-in.</strong> While all that ordinary users can do, be patient and wait for the final version of the patch.

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"We recommend OEMs, cloud service providers, system manufacturers, software vendors and end users to stop installing current versions of updates, <strong>as they can lead to more frequent, rather than expected, reboots and other unpredictable system behavior," Mr. Shenoy emphasized.</strong>

<strong>Intel also acknowledged that the problem patch also concerns the newer families of its processors Ivy Bridge</strong>, Sandy Bridge, Skylake and Kaby Lake, and it is not yet clear whether this problem will be fixed in the upcoming update.