Claim That UEFI Can Prevent Rootkit Infections

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Sunday, January 2, 2011
UEFI: The Next-Gen BIOS [A Complete Walkthrough in Plain English]
by Gouthaman Karunakaran

Have you been hearing about UEFI coming into PCs this year? If yes, you’d probably be excited about it. If you don’t have the faintest idea about UEFI this article should get you started.

Advantages of UEFI:

This section isn't really going to say a lot. UEFI aims to turn the limitations of BIOS into possibilities.

1. Support for IPv6 – I assume this has something to do with the Network boot which is very useful in a corporate environment.
2. Better chemistry with 64-bit Operating Systems and USB Drives (especially when you use them to boot up the PC).
3. Has a really cool interface which even amateurs will be able to embrace without much difficulty.
4. Has the ability to prevent Rootkit infections (which are known to run before your Operating System).
5. Has no 1MB limit like BIOS – this is an interesting phenomenon and we can expect to see a lot of features built outside the OS.
6. Supports hard drives that are larger than 2TB (this is really cool, if you store a lot videos and space consuming files).
7. Faster Boot up and Hibernate (Yeah, just like the Cr-48).

http://www.pcgeekblog.com/2011/01/uefi-next-gen-bios-complete-walkthrough.html

[bob3160]

Thanks for the information and link.

[Go Pack Go]

Man, that boot up was fast!!