Advice Request Did all Antivirus scan UEFI ?

[JB007]

Hello,
Did all Antivirus scan UEFI ?
I know that ESET does it but what about others ?

 

[ForgottenSeer 93786]

Pretty sure all of them does, its just not every one has it as an toggleable setting.

 

[ForgottenSeer 94633]

AVG IS seems to scan UEFI as well. I remember when I used it I think there was such an option.

 

[EascapenMatrix]

Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Avast Scans UEFI. And I don't think others don't as it is quite common for AVs to scans UEFI nowadays.

 

[Sunshine-boy]

Hello, Even if AV find smth bad there they cant fix it so there is no point in uefi sscanning.

 

[JB007]

Hello, Even if AV find smth bad there they cant fix it so there is no point in uefi sscanning.

And there is no solution to fix it ?

 

[EascapenMatrix]

And there is no solution to fix it ?

There are just to reflash the UEFI, Quite Simple!

I don't think for normal users UEFI malware will be an issue of concern for now.

 

[Anthony Qian]

UEFI scanning provided by ESET will only cause confusion for newbie users. It's almost impossible for AV or users to fix the issue detected.

 

[Kiss]

The UEFI scan makes no sense, it's just a marketing ploy by Eset, because in practice it's useless

 

[SeriousHoax]

I agree with the comments above. But it's nice to know if UEFI is infected, even though they won't be able to fix it. But a malware damaging your UEFI is very rare I think.
Microsoft Defender also has this capability. The link says MD Endpoint only but it's present in the home version also.

UEFI scanner brings Microsoft Defender ATP protection to a new level | Microsoft Security Blog

The UEFI scanner is a new component of the built-in antivirus solution on Windows 10 and gives Microsoft Defender ATP the ability to scan inside of the firmware filesystem and perform security assessment.

www.microsoft.com