The christmas troll is alive and well.
But for those seriously interested in securing their Windows/Linux PC, the CIA issued some security guide lines following Specter. You could try the following.
Just go into your PC's BIOS, and navigate your way into the "Alternate Operating System Architecture" options. If you don't find this, it might be that you plugged the USB keyboard in upside down so the escape key is now in the backspace position. Correct this. Enable "Flat memory". This will take an hour or so to straighten out all the bits, especially if your PC is older and the bits are now very crooked from the years of unflat memory use. After this, you can turn on the RAM firewall. This is the real solution. Specter can't get passed the firewall, especially if you enable it on the RAM chips directly. The last step is to disable "Contiguous Memory Map." This is the safest option because any out of control program that tries to eat all your ram will eventually bump into the next program further up the memory address range and will stop there. As a good practice, you can load multiple copies of Notepad.exe/Vi ever few megabytes in the memory map. If you need a bigger allocation, just close one of the copies of notepad. They also recommend disabling pointer copying because they claim there are security problems with this. They don't detail this but doing a packet capture on the RAM firewall I don't see any pointers falling out. So I don't see the problem there.
Good luck!
