>Does anybody serious believe that UEFI will "block viruses" from meddling with any boot process? Are boot-sector viruses even a problem any more, because it wa

>Does anybody serious believe that UEFI will "block viruses" from meddling with any boot process? Are boot-sector viruses even a problem any more, because it was pretty obvious that boot-time viruses (like "Brain") were only widely spread by MS-DOS and early Windows, that required a lot of boots. Boot-time viruses never made inroads in other populations of computers, just like Macro viruses never made inroads except in "Word" dominated environments. I have addressed this in a previous comment here. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4190483 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4190483