@sameAlso disables Windows Defender and mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown lol
@same to be fair, I don’t think a ton of gaming PCs are being targeted by timing side-channel attacks - I always thought the big risks were on VPSs
@same@tech.lgbtMaybe an attack that could be prevented with mitigations is not likely to happen, sure.
Running literally every executable as an administrator out of box and not having any sort of antimalware software is the bigger security issue here.
Maybe you can determine a malicious executable just by looking at it, but I bet a large majority of the target audience for this can't, and probably will just download something very sketchy.
They can still run something like Malwarebytes and scan suspicious executables before running them. Microsoft recently patched an issue where the Anti Malware service was reducing Firefox performance by 75% by triggering too often. That's an interesting patch note given how often people were saying that scanning has no effect on performance.