Microsoft will host Intel’s Spectre and Meltdown patches on its own site | Droolin Dog dot Net

If you’ve been worried about receiving Spectre and Meltdown BIOS patches for the PC you built yourself, there may be a solution: Microsoft has begun supplying them itself via an archive on its site. Typically, patching Spectre and Meltdown mitigations have followed a traditional pattern: Microsoft patches Windows via Windows Update, antivirus companies like AVG have patched their antivirus software, and so on. Intel, too, authors patches, as it recently did for Haswell and Broadwell CPUs. But unlike Microsoft, Intel doesn’t directly ship those patches to end users—it uses its network of PC makers and motherboard vendors to distribute them, after the appropriate testing by each vendor. To read this article in full, please click here Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3259924/security/microsoft-will-host-intels-spectre-and-meltdown-patches.html#tk.rss_all Tags: > Tech and Science | #ScienceTech, #pch3lp, #TechNews, pch3lp, Security | #Security, PCH3lp, TechNews, Windows | #Windows

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