Secure boot is an attempt to make covert persistence of an infection harder, that's all. It doesn't make it more or less likely for you to be compromised in the

Secure boot is an attempt to make covert persistence of an infection harder, that's all. It doesn't make it more or less likely for you to be compromised in the first place (and in general compromise of your user account is enough to be a big problem: most malware doesn't even need admin access let alone the ability to modify the parts of the system protected by secure boot)