
Impact: None - this is the default behavior. Rationale: This policy setting helps reduce the impact of malware that has already infected your system. The recommended state for this setting is: Enabled: Good, unknown and bad but critical. If your malware detection application does not include an Early Launch Antimalware boot-start driver or if your Early Launch Antimalware boot-start driver has been disabled, this setting has no effect and all boot-start drivers are initialized. If you enable this policy setting you will be able to choose which boot-start drivers to initialize the next time the computer is started. Unknown: This driver has not been attested to by your malware detection application and has not been classified by the Early Launch Antimalware boot-start driver.

Bad, but required for boot: The driver has been identified as malware, but the computer cannot successfully boot without loading this driver. It is recommended that you do not allow known bad drivers to be initialized. Bad: The driver has been identified as malware.



The Early Launch Antimalware boot-start driver can return the following classifications for each boot-start driver: Good: The driver has been signed and has not been tampered with. Information This policy setting allows you to specify which boot-start drivers are initialized based on a classification determined by an Early Launch Antimalware boot-start driver.
