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Old January 21st 18, 03:09 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general
Brian Gregory[_2_]
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Default GRC's Spectre and Meltdown testing software

On 21/01/2018 06:57, Paul wrote:
Yousuf Khan wrote:
Seems to be much easier than trying to install and run PowerShell
scripts, and much more reliable too:

https://www.grc.com/inspectre.htm


Have you decided what's it doing ?

What is it actually reading out ?

Â*Â* Paul


A lot of it comes from the CPUID instruction, so directly from the
processor itself.

It's probably also looking to see which version of Windows you have and
at the registry to see if the fixes are applied.

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Brian Gregory (in England).
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