In the past few days we have reported several times about the acute Meltdown & Specter security vulnerabilities and also showed you how you can quickly and easily check with a few PowerShell commands whether you have been affected by the security vulnerability.
With Windows 7, however, a few additional .Net Framework installations are sometimes necessary so that the Specter & Meltdown verification script can be executed.
In another article we explained in detail that the most important measure is a BIOS update from the motherboard manufacturer . Even the latest Windows updates are useless without the Bios Update.
Manufacturer’s BIOS updates against Meltdown & Specter
That is why we would like to offer you a very extensive list of the BIOS updates from the computer manufacturers below so that you can protect your PC against meltdown and specter as quickly as possible .
| Manufacturer | Website and link to Meltdown & Specter information |
|---|---|
| Acer | Acer – Meltdown and Specter security vulnerabilities |
| ASRock | ASRock latest Bios updates |
| ASUS | ASUS Update on Speculative Execution and Indirect Branch Prediction Side Channel Analysis Method |
| Dell |
Microprocessor side-channel vulnerabilities (CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5754): Impact on Dell products |
| Fujitsu | CPU hardware vulnerable to side-channel attacks (CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5754) |
| GigaByte | BIOS update for Side Channel Analysis Security issue Mitigations |
| HP | SUPPORT COMMUNICATION- SECURITY BULLETIN |
| Huawei | Security Notice – Statement on the Media Disclosure of the Security Vulnerabilities in the Intel CPU Architecture Design |
| Intel | Intel-SA-00088 for Intel® NUC, Intel® Compute Stick, and Intel® Compute Card |
| Lenovo | Reading Privileged Memory with a Side Channel |
| Panasonic | Security information of vulnerability by Speculative Execution and Indirect Branch Prediction Side Channel Analysis Method |
| Microsoft (Surface) | Surface guidance to protect against speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities |
| MSI | MSI pushes out motherboard BIOS updates to tackle recent security vulnerabilities |
| Toshiba | Intel, AMD & Microsoft Speculative Execution and Indirect Branch Prediction Side Channel Analysis Method Security Vulnerabilities |
| Vaio (Sony) | Side channel analysis |
Under the corresponding links you will find the appropriate BIOS updates for the current computer systems . Unfortunately, the PC manufacturers are currently going the way that initially they only publish the newer PC systems with the BIOS updates against Meltdown & Specter and that they still neglect the old PCs.
Thus there are currently no bios updates for many old PCs that are older than 3-4 years. It is currently questionable whether the manufacturers will still publish them . This means that owners of old PCs only have the option of permanently getting information from the manufacturers as to whether a Meltdown & Specter BIOS update is still available for their PC system . All in all a very unsatisfactory situation, because it cannot be required that everyone now buys new PCs so that they offer appropriate protection against Meltdown & Specter .
Should you know any other links to computer manufacturers or motherboard manufacturers that we have forgotten here, please leave a comment here at the end of this article.