On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 04:58:50 -0500, Yousuf Khan
wrote:

On 1/21/2018 1:57 AM, 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 ?

Paul

The FAQ on that page mentions that since Meltdown doesn't affect AMD
systems, there is no patch needed to fix it on those systems. So you
can't enable or disable the fixes to test it, since the problem simply
doesn't exist on AMD. On Intel, if you don't have the latest patches to
fix Meltdown, then you also can't enable or disable the fix, since the
fix hasn't been applied.

For Spectre, it says that that requires a firmware upgrade. My processor
(AMD) shows that it's invulnerable to Meltdown, but susceptible to
Spectre. The way to fix Spectre requires a BIOS upgrade. I have a
feeling that I will never see another BIOS upgrade for my system, as the
last BIOS update for my board was 2013! The board makers may update
boards that are a year or two old, but not this one.

I agree. I have an older Gigabite board from about the same date and not
expecting a bios update for it. Intel also has to update firmware for the
cpu. Since my system is paired with a i5-2500k cpu I'm not expecting
anything for that either but am in a hurry to upgrade. That was one of the
best cpus intel put out in the last decade

I think inspectre is just reading the windows registry for the patch info
and either removing the entries or putting them back to disable/enable.
Antivirus makers had to add registry info as well.


https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...virus-software