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It is a story about all of them, I did not say Secure Boot caused this problem, I said I disabled it to be able to install Windows 7.


> It is a story about all of them, I did not say Secure Boot caused this problem, I said I disabled it to be able to install Windows 7.

Suppose that a user buys a Windows 8 machine, goes to a website, and downloads malware that slows down the machine and makes it unusable. Finally, a local teenager wipes the machine, disables Secure Boot, and installs Windows 7.

One would hardly say that this is a "f-cked up story of" malware, Secure Boot, and Windows 8. Secure Boot is merely incidental, and has nothing to do with the issue of malware on Windows 8.




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