Virus Writers will have a field day! (Score 0)

Because EFI has its own filing system that lives on a reserved part of the hard disk, it can become the standard home for a whole set of utilities that have always had an awkward fit with the BIOS: things like disk partitioners, multiple OS boot controllers, system backup and restore, will be natural EFI applications.

Am I the only one that finds this part a little bit scary?

Unless the reserved part of the hard disk is very well protected surely virus writers will take about 10 seconds to work out how to flatten your EFI filesystem thus causing you to lose your OS boot controller etc?

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