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  2. Pre-boot authentication - Wikipedia

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    A PBA environment serves as an extension of the BIOS, UEFI or boot firmware and guarantees a secure, tamper-proof environment external to the operating system as a trusted authentication layer. [2] The PBA prevents any operating system from loading until the user has confirmed he/she has the correct password to unlock the computer. [2]

  3. Option ROM - Wikipedia

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    The boot loader on the option ROM would attempt to boot from a disk, network, or other boot program source attached to or installed on the adapter card; if that boot attempt failed, it would pass control to the previous boot loader (to which INT 19h pointed before the option ROM hooked it), allowing the system to boot from another device as a ...

  4. Bootloader unlocking - Wikipedia

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    Bootloader unlocking is the process of disabling the bootloader security that makes secure boot possible. It can make advanced customizations possible, such as installing custom firmware. On smartphones, this can be a custom Android distribution or another mobile operating system. Some bootloaders are not locked at all and some are locked, but ...

  5. Lenovo Legion - Wikipedia

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    Lenovo Legion is a line of consumer-oriented laptops, desktop computers, smartphone, and tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Lenovo, targeting gaming performance. The first Legion brand laptops, the Legion Y520 and the Legion Y720, were revealed at CES 2017 and succeeded the IdeaPad Y series . [ 1 ]

  6. UEFI - Wikipedia

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    When Secure Boot is enabled, it is initially placed in "setup" mode, which allows a public key known as the "platform key" (PK) to be written to the firmware. Once the key is written, Secure Boot enters "User" mode, where only UEFI drivers and OS boot loaders signed with the platform key can be loaded by the firmware.

  7. Safety and security features available with AOL Desktop Gold

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    This means that the fraudulent website is blocked for you going forward, as well as for others who use Desktop Gold. Anti-keylogging window disguises what you're typing The random letters, numbers, and characters in the top-right of your screen is the anti-keylogging window that disguises the actual keys you type on your keyboard with randomly ...

  8. User Account Control - Wikipedia

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    User Account Control asks for credentials in a Secure Desktop mode, where the entire screen is temporarily dimmed, Windows Aero disabled, and only the authorization window at full brightness, to present only the elevation user interface (UI). Normal applications cannot interact with the Secure Desktop.

  9. Safe mode - Wikipedia

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    Also, in a multi-boot environment with multiple versions of Windows installed side by side, the F8 key can be pressed at the OS selector prompt to get to safe mode. However, under Windows 8 (released in 2012), the traditional press-F8-for-safe-mode-options UI convention no longer works, and either Shift-F8 or a special GUI-based workaround is ...