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Re:Mac OS High Sierra automatically checks EFI firmware each... by jonknee on Sunday September 24, 2017 @10:05PM (#15327619)
> why not check it at every boot?

For me that would be waaaay less often than weekly. Doing both would make some sense. Though a large sample like almost all OS users should mean everyone's week is different and an attack that involves multiple machines should start triggering reports very quickly.

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Re:Mac OS High Sierra automatically checks EFI firmware each... by apetresc on Monday September 25, 2017 @02:17AM (#15328410)
The article doesn't specify, but I assume that "weekly" means "one boot per week", right? The kinds of malware that this type of check is trying to prevent would easily circumvent an OS-level check, no? I assumed this weekly "check" would happen before the OS is loaded.
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Re:Mac OS High Sierra automatically checks EFI firmware each... by beedogs on Monday September 25, 2017 @02:48AM (#15328507)
What he's saying is that he doesn't reboot often, and certainly not once a week.

My Macbook has been up and running without a reboot for almost a year.

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Re:Mac OS High Sierra automatically checks EFI firmware each... by dewey on Monday September 25, 2017 @04:20AM (#15328774)
You never update your OS?
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