> t helps if you remember the context in which Secure Boot was created. Back then, boot sector viruses and similar malware were common. At the time the Secure

> t helps if you remember the context in which Secure Boot was created. Back then, boot sector viruses and similar malware were common. At the time the Secure Boot was conceived, boot sector viruses were extinct by about a decade. What was new, was the VM* set of instructions, and the scare that there could be a new kind of boot sector viruses slash hypervisors, which could do a bad things to your computer. There was never such a virus in reality, only hypothesized.