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foobarf · on Oct 28, 2011

If the software is executed by the boot loader (UEFI), before Microsoft's windows boots, that is not by any fault of windows.

e40 · on Oct 28, 2011

"If the software is executed by the boot loader (UEFI), before Microsoft's windows boots, that is not by any fault of windows."

That's what it does after it gets installed. It got installed by attacking Windows itself.

recoiledsnake · on Oct 28, 2011

> It got installed by attacking Windows itself.

The same attack is technically possible in OS X and Linux but not in iOS or WP7. Go figure.