In short, if you’re running Windows on a computer powered by an AMD, you’re not going to be offered the Spectre/Meltdown fixes for now.

“Microsoft is working with AMD to resolve this issue and resume Windows OS security updates to the affected AMD devices via Windows Update and WSUS as soon as possible.” “To prevent AMD customers from getting into an unbootable state, Microsoft has temporarily paused sending the following Windows operating system updates to devices that have impacted AMD processors,” the company continued. “After investigating, Microsoft determined that some AMD chipsets do not conform to the documentation previously provided to Microsoft to develop the Windows operating system mitigations to protect against the chipset vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown,” the company said in a notice posted to its support site.

On Tuesday, Microsoft said it was suspending the patches for computers running AMD chipsets. Microsoft warned that the BSOD problems were attributable to many antivirus programs not yet updating their software to play nice with the security updates. The bugs are thought to be mainly exploitable in chips made by Intel and ARM, but researchers said it was possible they also could be leveraged to steal data from computers with chips made by AMD.īy the time that story had published, Microsoft had already begun shipping an emergency update to address the flaws, but many readers complained that their PCs experienced the dreaded “ blue screen of death” (BSOD) after applying the update. Last week’s story, Scary Chip Flaws Raise Spectre of Meltdown, sought to explain the gravity of these two security flaws present in most modern computers, smartphones, tablets and mobile devices. Separately, Adobepushed a security update to its Flash Player software. Microsoft on Tuesday released 14 security updates, including fixes for the Spectreand Meltdownflaws detailed last week, as well as a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Officethat is being exploited in the wild.

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