TirithRR wrote:
I checked to see if secure boot was enabled, and it is. Will just have to make sure to disable it when I go to install Windows 7.
So is there any legitimate security reasons for manufacturers to use this secure boot, or is it pretty much just to try and force the use of the pre installed OS?
So is there any legitimate security reasons for manufacturers to use this secure boot, or is it pretty much just to try and force the use of the pre installed OS?
Eh, kind of. It would prevent me from plugging in a bootable USB stick physically to the machine and launching it to an OS that could then alter the base files of the normal OS, but that only helps if you have your BIOS locked down to the point where I can't access it, and I can't get phyiscal access to the motherboard to reset the bios in the first place, eliminating the bios password. So it's not really going to even slow down someone with physical access to your machine who knows what they are doing, and it doesn't really protect against anything else.