Meltdown update meltdown...

[porina]

I like to run updates when I want to, not when MS wants to, so today I decided it might be safe enough to install the February updates on my Win10 desktop systems, and check up on the Meltdown patch specifically. I opened up the firewall, and hit update... and was surprised how little was actually updated. A flash security update and the monthly anti-malware thing. That's it? Can't be right... systems use the freebie built in MS anti-virus, double check the registry key was in place, rebooted some more, but no Meltdown patch according to the powershell script MS produced. Fine, I manually installed it on all systems, and verified it. All seems fine. Wonder why the reluctance...

 

I've kinda given up updating Win7 systems as they're essentially compute nodes and don't do any other activity. Exception are a couple of servers that still run Win7/2008R2. Same deal here. They're not being offered the Meltdown patch by default.