Hacker News
- Microsoft disables Windows Update when Meltdown/Spectre registry key isn't set https://doublepulsar.com/important-information-about-microsoft-meltdown-cpu-security-fixes-antivirus-vendors-and-you-a852ba0292ec 101 comments
- Important Read for Jan 2018 Microsoft Updates and beyond, RE: Spectre https://doublepulsar.com/important-information-about-microsoft-meltdown-cpu-security-fixes-antivirus-vendors-and-you-a852ba0292ec 13 comments sysadmin
- "Some anti-virus vendors are using techniques to bypass Kernel Patch Protection by injecting a hypervisor which they use to intercept syscalls and make assumptions about memory locations — memory locations which are now changing with the Meltdown fixes." https://doublepulsar.com/important-information-about-microsoft-meltdown-cpu-security-fixes-antivirus-vendors-and-you-a852ba0292ec 570 comments programming
- Microsoft disables Windows Update for systems that don't have Spectre/Meltdown compliant antivirus https://doublepulsar.com/important-information-about-microsoft-meltdown-cpu-security-fixes-antivirus-vendors-and-you-a852ba0292ec 321 comments netsec
Linking pages
Linked pages
- Important: Windows security updates and antivirus software https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4072699/january-3-2018-windows-security-updates-and-antivirus-software 21 comments
- Medium https://medium.com/m/signin?isDraft=1&operation=login&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F%40jamie_34747%2F79d382edf22b%3Fsource%3D 19 comments
- KB4072698: Windows Server and Azure Stack HCI guidance to protect against silicon-based microarchitectural and speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities - Microsoft Support https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4072698/windows-server-guidance-to-protect-against-the-speculative-execution 2 comments