Check if your PC is protected by Specter and Meltdown (2018 hardware vulnerability)

How to check if your PC is protected by Spectre and Meltdown hardware vulnerabilities

I did not want to talk about it because I think sometimes, when you cannot do much better, ignore the problems that you know and know you are powerless, but in the end you can not get away and we have to devote a few lines to the latest computer security problem , discovered January 3, 2018, which involves all the PCs, servers and smartphones of the world . 
The defects discovered were even two, signed with the names Meltdown and Specter, which allow, in different ways, to leave open a vulnerability that allows malware to access information saved in the memory of programs and, therefore, the data of the device. 
Due to a hardware design flaw of many modern processors Malicious users can exploit these two vulnerabilities to access part of the memory that should remain private, allowing them to steal things like passwords, emails, browser history and photos. 

Both are hardware vulnerabilities: Meltdown concerns ARM and Intel processors, while Specter covers all processors. 
While security patches from Intel, Microsoft and Apple are already available for Meltdown, there is currently no solution for the Specter vulnerability because it is an architectural problem with the processors, which should therefore be adjusted and modified for be protected. 

In this article we are going to find out if our Windows PC is vulnerable to Specter, which most likely will be, and how to protect yourself from Meltwdown and Specter .

First of all it is important to know that Microsoft has already released a patch for the Meltdown bug as a Windows update. 
This patch effectively nullifies the threat posed by this bug on Intel-based PCs, while it is not distributed on AMD-based PCs. 
To check , open Windows Update from the Start menu (in Windows 10 by going to Settings> Update and Security ) and make sure everything has been installed. 
In particular, updates to protect the computer against Meltdown have the abbreviation KB4056892 on Windows 10, KB4056897 for Windows 7 and KB4056898 for Windows 8.1.

So if the protection for Meltdown should be solved so, Specter is a vulnerability that remains, for which there are currently no patches that make the PC protected, which would require a BIOS update if the manufacturer of the PC or motherboard releases a new version (which is not at all obvious). 
To find out if our computer is protected or vulnerable Specter there is a command to be launched using the Power shell utility .

If you are facing any issue related to Specter and Meltdown concern then  feel free to contact UAE Technician expert . Our highly qualified  technician team are always available to protect your all devices like Laptop, Desktop, Macbook, imac, iphone  from Specter and Meltdown.