METHOD OF CHECKING COMPUTER WITH ANTIVIRUS IN UEFI AT EARLY STAGE OF BOOTING COMPUTER Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC G06F12/14 

FIELD: physics, computer engineering.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to protecting a computer from malware. The method of checking a computer with an antivirus in UEFI at an early stage of booting the computer comprises steps of: turning on the computer; the computer loading Unified Extensible Firmware (UEFI) from the memory module of the computer motherboard; at the UEFI execution step, switching to a driver execution environment for launching the antivirus module from a separate partition of the motherboard memory module, wherein the antivirus module checks the computer hard drives for signs of viral activity and if viruses are detected, performs procedures for elimination thereof, and after operation of the antivirus module, protecting the memory module from reading and writing with the aim of changing or blocking the memory module, and the transferring UEFI control for further booting of the computer.

EFFECT: improved computer safety.

3 cl, 1 dwg