Windows 10: How secured I am if Windows Security stopped a downloaded file?

Hello,

I asked from someone on another modding forum to help me with trying to make my old graphics card work with an old motherboard. He modded the vBIOS of the graphics card and uploaded it to a website called ufile.io... immediately after I clicked download I got this message from Windows Security:





Was the problem in the file itself (I didn't even open it yet!) Or it was something in this website?
I mean.. do you think the forum moderator there who helped me tried to make me install a virus?
This is the link to the second page of my post there with the link to the website of the download:

Forum - RE: Can't get R9 290 GPU to work with my motherboard - could it be a BIOS problem? - 2

Am I safe if it stopped it? Or there are sophisticated viruses that go behind the protection and stay dormant until it's time for action?

:)

 

Security attributes for Downloaded files

To disable the Open File Security Warning in all browsers or apps that downloads a file from the internet, follow these steps:

• Press Windows + R to open Run.
• Type inetcpl.cpl and press Enter.
• Adjust the lever to your desired security level (From low to high) and click OK. You can also add trusted sites if your site is not yet on the list.

In addition to the steps above, you can Customize the level of security. Just click Custom level and you can
Enable the app or browser that you want to download files.

Let us know how it goes.

 

MS Security Essentials + FF4 - Downloads slow

This is the setting in question
browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone;TRUE
Scan files for viruses when they finish downloading. Starting in Firefox 3.7, also apply Windows security policy checks. (Default)

Even if you don't have AV installed it still runs a scan on the completed download because it also applies windows security policies to the downloads.

Depending on your AV, and if you are hopefully downloading and saving rather then running. Your AV, if it has the ability, is going to scan the download stream, scan at the end of the file because FF is going to request it, scan the file when it's written to disk and then scan the file again when you decide to use it.

 

Windows 8 Secure Boot Feature: Not So Secure?

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• Oh and OSX

Here is a statement from a Kernal Developer at Red Hat:

I'm not sure this exploits the legacy BIOS but rather it exploits the legacy boot method on MBR drives, injecting a signed key before the OS boots, which you are correct in that it has nothing to do with Windows 8. And the simplest fix would just be to require boot drives use GPT when Secure Boot is enabled in UEFI.