X370 Fat Pro Gamng is still vulerable to Spectre

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   I have been catching up on the Meltdown and Spectre news. I originally thought AMD users just needed a Windows update and we were good to go, but it appears that is not the case. Just for fun i downloaded InSpectre to check if i am vulnerable, turns out i am still vulnerable to Spectre. Which requires a BIOS update.

It would be appreciated if ASRock can give us an update on when we can expect to have patches for this major exploit. It is a pretty big deal. We still have no idea if anyone is using this exploit in the wild, and it sounds like people are working on it now. It's certainly not difficult to detect if people are vulnerable.

Thanks for your time.

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PinetreeRoad Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 06 Jun 2017 Status: Offline Points: 32	Post Options Post Reply Quote PinetreeRoad Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: X370 Fat Pro Gamng is still vulerable to Spectre Posted: 25 Jan 2018 at 6:23am
	I have been catching up on the Meltdown and Spectre news. I originally thought AMD users just needed a Windows update and we were good to go, but it appears that is not the case. Just for fun i downloaded InSpectre to check if i am vulnerable, turns out i am still vulnerable to Spectre. Which requires a BIOS update. It would be appreciated if ASRock can give us an update on when we can expect to have patches for this major exploit. It is a pretty big deal. We still have no idea if anyone is using this exploit in the wild, and it sounds like people are working on it now. It's certainly not difficult to detect if people are vulnerable. Thanks for your time.

kerberos_20 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 06 Dec 2017 Location: czech republic Status: Offline Points: 3657	Post Options Post Reply Quote kerberos_20 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 Jan 2018 at 6:42am
	do u want to end up like intel fanboys? rushed up kinky bioses :P

VUMeter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 14 Sep 2017 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 148	Post Options Post Reply Quote VUMeter Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: 25 Jan 2018 at 8:09am
	There is another thread where we are keeping an eye. http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7365&title=meltdown-spectre Bottom line is, until AMD release a microcode update to motherboard manufacturers, they won't be able to release a new BIOS for us. A lot of a processor makers technical stuff is proprietary info and they probably don't want to just dump it straight to mobo makers. AMD probably passes a lot on, just as Intel does, but both probably force strong NDAs. I'm getting into waffle. Meltdown is the real problem because it's real easy to exploit. Spectre is a tougher cookie, especially some variants over others.
	X370 TaiChi \| 1700X P3.10 stock clocks \| (2x 16GB) 32GB FlareX 2400MHz.