Intel has launched a simple utility, very light and that does not require installation, that tells us if our processor suffers from any of the vulnerabilities detected or if we are completely safe.

We have only been four days into 2018 and for now, it is being a highly motivated start to the year, so moved that the mess of AMD drivers with DirectX 9, has remained little more than an anecdote. The discovery of two vulnerabilities in x86 processors, which affects not only Intel processors as mentioned at first, but also those of AMD and ARM, despite the fact that AMD has said countless times that they do not it affects the least, Google and Microsoft have denied it.

Intel is the one who is suffering the most, with a sharp fall in the stock market, to which we must add the sale of shares by Brian Krzanich, days before the case is uncovered, which makes us suspect that he has used privileged information. To try to reverse the situation, Intel has launched a very easy-to-use tool that tells us whether or not our processor suffers from said vulnerability and thus remain more calm.

This tool, of course, is free and can be downloaded easily from the company website. The utility is compatible with Linux and several Windows distributions, the most modern ones, in particular, and its weight is minimal. We will download a compressed file, which we must open and inside we have to go to the DiscoveryTool.GUI folder. We access the folder and execute the file and in a few seconds we will know if our system has the vulnerability detected or not. There is absolutely nothing to install, it is a simple executable. The most normal thing is that it happens to you like us and your system has no problem, but if it appears to you that it is vulnerable, calm down, as long as you do not mount several virtual machines on your computer, there is nothing to fear.