General patch information: https://www.askwoody.com/category/microsoft-windows-patches-security/

AMD's solutions: https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution



...can't seem to find anything obvious for Intel...yet.



/e Article...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/heres-how-and-why-the-spectre-and-meltdown-patches-will-hurt-performance/

This post was edited by Ghot on Jan 11 2018 11:48pm

MSI already has fixed bios out. Been out for a bit, I got it when i put my ssd's in.

Iirc Meltdown and Spectre were only discovered in July 2017, and the info wasn't released until a lot later.
So check the date that the BIOS was released.

Like the latest BIOS for my ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R 2.0 motherboard was Aug 2016...so for my motherboard, the Meltdown/Spectre BIOS isn't out yet.





On a side note, there are supposed to be CPU microcode patches as well. ASt least for AMD they will be released as part of an OS update.
How Intel plans to do it, I haven't found out yet.

Microsoft is busy on all fronts, patching all they can.


I found a tool that can check if all facets of these two flaws are patched...the one circled in RED is the easiest, IMO, to use.

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Speculation-Control-e36f0050/view/Discussions/2





I ran it on my comp (AMD) and this is what the results look like...






/e This "run" is after the Windows Update.



This post was edited by Ghot on Jan 12 2018 12:49am

Sweet find. ^^

I just wanted to make clear to other folks, with older motherboards...to check the dates that the latest BIOS was released.

Also... I forgot about this topic: http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=77791442&f=188&o=0

lmao

Well that topic was about Intel, mainly.
Since Meltdown and Sceptre seem to affect Intel, AMD and Arm, I felt a better topic title would help.

A really easy tool to check your system for Meltdown and/or Spectre vulnerabilities...

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



No install, fast and easy with descriptions of results. As you can see, I'm not protected against Spectre...yet.
From the description in the tool, it seems I am still waiting on BIOS and CPU microcode updates from ASUS and AMD.

This thing is destroying laptops right now