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Microsoft Removes Antivirus Registry Key Check for Windows 10 Users (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by msmash on from the better-late-than-never dept.

Microsoft has backtracked on a decision it took back in January when it conditioned that computers without a special registry key would not receive any more security updates. From a report: That particular "requirement" was introduced as part of the Meltdown and Spectre patching process. At the time, Microsoft said that antivirus vendors would have to add a key to the Windows Registry to signal that they are compatible with Microsoft's original Meltdown and Spectre patches. This was a big issue at the time because Microsoft detected during testing that some antivirus vendors would inject code into parts of the kernel that the company was trying to patch against Meltdown and Spectre flaws.

3 of 38 comments (clear)

  1. Makes Sense by ErstO · · Score: 4, Interesting

    it does not really sound like a backtrack, but more like we do not need to do this anymore, now that the antivirus programs stopped using those parts of the kernel that the patch needed.

  2. I'm all for hating Microsoft... by ckatko · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...but screw A/V vendors even more. There are countless devs on huge projects like Firefox and Chrome that talk about how horrible A/V vendors treat your system and even INJECT new vulnerabilities into your system.

    https://it.slashdot.org/story/...

    https://www.theregister.co.uk/...

  3. Finally, a feature we can get behind ... by _Sharp'r_ · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Finally, a way to actually turn off updates until we want them in Windows 10 and MS comes back and takes the feature away. Sheesh!

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