Windows 10: Security Mitigations

Discus and support Security Mitigations in Windows 10 Performance & Maintenance to solve the problem; Under security mitigations in event viewer. I get several warnings of these a day. Process device harddisk volume 3 program files waterfox waterfox.exe... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Performance & Maintenance' started by Purpleroses, Dec 19, 2020.

  1. PURPLEROSES
    Purpleroses Win User

    Security Mitigations


    Under security mitigations in event viewer. I get several warnings of these a day. Process device harddisk volume 3 program files waterfox waterfox.exe was blocked for making system calls to win32k.sys. Is there anything I need to do to not get this worrying and can I just ignore the warning? Everything is working alright.

    :)
     
    Purpleroses, Dec 19, 2020
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  2. QUBIT
    qubit Win User

    Corporate Security Solution

    That made me so facepalm. Some people have absolutely no clue. I hope they don't take you for granted with all this you're doing for them.

    SonicWall is a good security product, so Mindweaver's suggestion sounds like a good one and should make for a rather bigger baby step. Let's hope they take it.
     
    qubit, Dec 19, 2020
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  3. ROB DB
    Rob dB Win User
    Mitigation not enabled

    Windows OS support for branch target injection mitigation is enabled: False

    Windows OS support for branch target injection mitigation is disabled by system policy: False

    Windows OS support for branch target injection mitigation is disabled by absence of hardware support: False

    BTIWindowsSupportEnabled : False

    BTIDisabledBySystemPolicy : False

    BTIDisabledByNoHardwareSupport : False

    So what I can gather by this is that the system mitigation is disabled, however not by policy or absense of hardware, so in a nutshell, windows doesn't want to enable it for some unknown reasons. Unlike others who have the mitigation disabled due to absense
    of hardware support mine is apparently completely software related.

    So I'll ask you guys, how do I enable the protection?

    Hardware support for branch target injection mitigation is present: True

    Windows OS support for branch target injection mitigation is present: True

    As you can see both hardware and software support it.
     
    Rob dB, Dec 19, 2020
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  4. PURPLEROSES
    Purpleroses Win User

    Security Mitigations

    Security Mitigations

    Under security mitigations in event viewer. I get several warnings of these a day. Process device harddisk volume 3 program files waterfox waterfox.exe was blocked for making system calls to win32k.sys. Is there anything I need to do to not get this worrying and can I just ignore the warning? Everything is working alright.
     
    Purpleroses, Dec 19, 2020
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