My question to that statement, is: Have any of the chip manufacturers given a timeframe of when new, fixed, processors will be released?
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 6:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Are the Meltdown/Spectre reg keys needed for workstations? Not going to happen. It’s going to require new processors. Everything being released is a mitigation, not a “fix”. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Ziots Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 4:27 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Are the Meltdown/Spectre reg keys needed for workstations? 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" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 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 ....)
