Reply to post: Re: Win 7/Microsoft Security Essentials

CPU bug patch saga: Antivirus tools caught with their hands in the Windows cookie jar

Naselus

Re: Win 7/Microsoft Security Essentials

"I don't know when the registry key on the Security Essentials machine was added but I know it existed before I installed the Meltdown update."

I doubt it; this is a brand-new, never-previously-existed reg key. MSE may have had a recent update that told it to add the key if no other AV was present on the machine?

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