It appears that the issue is not simple to address, due to the intrinsic way in which the functions are performed in the hardware.
Regards, *ASB* *https://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker <https://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker>* *Providing CyberSecurity and IT Operations Consulting for the SMB market…* * GPG: *860D 40A1 4DA5 3AE1 B052 8F9F 07A1 F9D6 A549 8842 On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 4:27 PM, Ed Ziots <eziot...@gmail.com> wrote: > It would be nice if intel and amd released.processor or bios.firmware > update to.fix the flaw.once and all. > > On Jan 9, 2018 2:24 PM, "Michael Leone" <oozerd...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Here's something (more) I am confused about. Suppose I have Win 7 and Win >> 10 workstations, and I have properly patched the OS. Do I *also* need to >> issue the 2 (or is it 3) registry entries? >> >> I *thought* the registry entries were only for servers, but I have seen >> other statements that say that the Meltdown/Spectre fixes are *not* enabled >> until you issue the registry entries. >> >> So without the reg entries, you are effectively unpatched? The patches >> are there, but dormant? >> >> (neither of my home PCs have BIOS updates issued - one is for a very old >> Dell Optiplex 755 that I only use to connect to a NAS, and the other is one >> I assembled from parts back in 2011. Neither has has had a BIOS upgrade >> released in years. Ah, the joy ....) >> >>
