Monday, January 29th 2018
Microsoft Issues Update to Rollback Intel Spectre, Meltdown Problematic Patches
Multiple reports pegged some issues on Intel's rapid-fire, microcode and software response towards addressing the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, with Intel themselves coming forward, admitting to the problems' existence, and urging users not to perform said updates. However, Intel's press release wasn't very clear on whether or not users would be able to rollback changes in order to recover their machines' stability. Microsoft has taken the matter into its own hands, via an out of band update for Windows, KB4078130, that specifically disables only the mitigation against CVE-2017-5715 - "Branch target injection vulnerability."
In Microsoft's testing, this particular update is the one that the company has found to be associated the most with stability issues on host machines, and their out of band update seems to mitigate these completely. Microsoft is also adding the possibility for users to either disable or enable the troublesome mitigation themselves, manually, via registry changes. Microsoft seems to have taken the job of cleaning house on themselves, after Intel's apparent hasty move to restore security to systems based on their CPUs.
Source:
Microsoft Support
In Microsoft's testing, this particular update is the one that the company has found to be associated the most with stability issues on host machines, and their out of band update seems to mitigate these completely. Microsoft is also adding the possibility for users to either disable or enable the troublesome mitigation themselves, manually, via registry changes. Microsoft seems to have taken the job of cleaning house on themselves, after Intel's apparent hasty move to restore security to systems based on their CPUs.
15 Comments on Microsoft Issues Update to Rollback Intel Spectre, Meltdown Problematic Patches
Looks like this update was the one that was at issue. Thanks Microsoft...
Talk about knock on effects. Currently running Prime after having to reset bios and retune. Thanks MS or AMD or whoever.
Perhaps its my great looks... weird stuff
Back in december 2017 windows update completly fucked up my install so had to waste two freaking days of my vacation to get it up and run again. So take no chances this time around. But maybe its time to update now with this fix.
It shut look something like this.
press on your keyboard : windows + R and type "gpedit.msc" to run Local Group Policy editor ( assuming you have window 10 pro not Home edition)
From the left panel select and open (administrative templates) folder under (Computer Configuration ) then (Windows components ) then (Delivery Optimization ).
From the right panel Double-click on (Maximum Download Bandwidth (in KB/s)) , then select enable then below put the speed to 1 KB/s then restart and good luck to windows update trying to update with 1KB/s.
To reset back to default select (Not Configured ) .
On windows 10 build 1709 and newer you have the option to assign your connection as "metered" that also will reduce the updates to minimum if you don't want to use Local Group Policy editor .
Download it here : www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4078130
I am on Fast Ring build 17083, and have not gotten this