

But older processors, lacking these newer features, will be significantly burdened and system performance will suffer under some workloads. To further complicate matters, newer processors contain features to minimize the performance impact of these important security improvements. Protection from these two significant vulnerabilities requires updates to every system's hardware–its BIOS which reloads updated processor firmware–and its operating system–to use the new processor features.

The industry quickly responded, and is responding, to these Meltdown and Spectre threats by updating operating systems, motherboard BIOSes and CPU firmware. In early 2018 the PC industry was rocked by the revelation that common processor design features, widely used to increase the performance of modern PCs, could be abused to create critical security vulnerabilities.

System's ability to prevent the Meltdown and Spectre attacks.Īs the application's textual display says. The many overlapping and confusing aspects of any Windows “InSpectre” is an easy to use & understand utility designed to clarify
