Patch Tuesday drops the mandatory antivirus requirement after all
(credit: amalthya / Flickr) In the immediate aftermath of the Spectre and Meltdown attacks, Microsoft created an unusual stipulation for Windows patches: systems would only receive the fixes if they had antivirus software installed and if that antivirus software created a special entry in the registry to indicate that it’s compatible with the Windows fixes. This was due to the particularly invasive nature of the Meltdown fix:...