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Mitigating Spectre variant 2 with Retpoline on Windows

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Mehmet_Iyigun
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Dec 06, 2018
Updated May 14, 2019:  We're happy to announce that today we've updated Retpoline cloud configuration to enable it for all supported devices!* In addition, with the May 14 Patch Tuesday update, we've...
Updated May 14, 2019
Version 16.0
Performance
security
Windows 10
Windows Server
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rebootit
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Mar 03, 2019

Brok3n Cogniti0n boktai1000 with 17763.348 you should have retpoline enabled, it specifically adds support to 1809.

 

I cannot verify as I am running 19H1 but perhaps Retpoline is only enabled with Spectre protections enabled, you should check out how to enable them on client systems (you may need KB4465065 and registry settings changes as outlined in MS ADV18002) if your machine does not have hardware microcode.

 

KB4465065 is a standalone update and not delivered by WU.