Meltdown-and-Spectre-detector comes to Windows Analytics

Microsoft's added a Meltdown-and-Spectre detector to Windows Analytics, the company's telemetry analysis tool for sysadmins. The new version of the tool arrived on Tuesday, when Redmond revealed new features to check antivirus status, operating system update level, and firmware status. Sysadmins weary from gazing at users' …

[Ejit]

Kerching

This sounds a lot like Steve Gibson's InSpectre. Call the lawyers Steve.

[Alan J. Wylie]

"no slight to AMD users"

Remember that AMD processors are not vulnerable to Meltdown.

There are microcode/firmware updates from AMD to support IBPB (Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier), which flushes the branch prediction cache on context switches to mitigate Spectre variant #2 (CVE-2017-5715).

[Anonymous Coward]

Not for the Plebs though

You can get started with Windows Analytics today by visiting our Windows for Business site. It’s free for enterprise E3 and E5 subscribers and Windows 10 Pro users.