* Low-level details of the windows boot process, from early Windows versions to modern
UEFI set-ups.
"Although, in theory we were aware that
UEFI rootkits existed, our discovery confirms they are used by an active APT group.
The difference is that
UEFI is modern and features Secure Boot, which theoretically guards against malicious attacks by requiring signed drivers and a signed OS.
The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (
UEFI) opens up the basic input output system (BIOS) so that developers can normalize the interfaces associated with BIOS technology and leverage it many ways that were not previously possible.
said it has added
UEFI Bluetooth[R] keyboard and pointing device support to its flagship Aptio[R] V
UEFI Firmware.
Windows 8 also provides a secure boot feature with
UEFI firmware that requires the operating system to be digitally signed to protect the malware from infecting boot process [14].
It also supports Duo BIOS and users can select to set Legacy or
UEFI BIOS as the boot disk without installing extra drivers.
- Pre-Boot AIPBE (Linux) support for
uEFI native mode.
Support for Windows 8.1, Server 2012 R2 and the latest version of VMware's ESX hypervisor New user interface that is fully compatible with Windows 8 and Server 2012 R2
uEFI support that simplifies boot connectivity and easily overcomes uEFI/GPT migration challenges (now available in Windows, WinPE, and Linux) New pVHD backup container format Paragon[acute accent]s proprietary image format is a better approach for desktop virtualization and disaster recovery.
Computers labeled "Windows 8-Ready" contain a new motherboard component--Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (
UEFI) Secure Boot--that must be turned off or it will only boot the latest versions of certain Linux distros.
For the Haswell platform all boards that we tested had
UEFI BIOSes, though each one was different in some way or the other.