Table 5. Security menu items (continued)

Menu item

Submenu item

Selection

Comments

 

 

 

 

 

 

Password at restart

Disabled

If you select and enable

 

 

Enabled

Password at restart,

 

 

a password prompt is

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

displayed when you restart

 

 

 

 

the computer. If you select

 

 

 

 

Disabled, no password

 

 

 

 

prompt is displayed; the

 

 

 

 

computer goes ahead and

 

 

 

 

loads the operating system.

 

 

 

 

To prevent unauthorized

 

 

 

 

access, set the user

 

 

 

 

authentication on the

 

 

 

 

operating system.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Power-On Password

Disabled

Refer to “Power-on

 

 

Enabled

password” on page 46.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hard Disk1 Password

Disabled

Refer to “Hard disk

 

 

Enabled

passwords” on page

 

 

46.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UEFI BIOS Update Option

Flash BIOS Updating by

Disabled

If you select Enabled,

 

End-Users

Enabled

all users can update the

 

 

UEFI BIOS. If you select

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disabled, only the person

 

 

 

 

who knows the supervisor

 

 

 

 

password can update the

 

 

 

 

UEFI BIOS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Secure RollBack Prevention

Disabled

If you select Disabled, you

 

 

Enabled

can flash the older version

 

 

UEFI BIOS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Memory Protection

Execution Prevention

Disabled

Some computer viruses

 

 

Enabled

and worms cause memory

 

 

buffers to overflow by

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

running code where only

 

 

 

 

data is allowed. If the

 

 

 

 

Data Execution Prevention

 

 

 

 

feature can be used with

 

 

 

 

your operating system, then

 

 

 

 

by selecting Enabled you

 

 

 

 

can protect your computer

 

 

 

 

against attacks by such

 

 

 

 

viruses and worms. If after

 

 

 

 

choosing Enabled you find

 

 

 

 

that a program does not run

 

 

 

 

correctly, select Disabled

 

 

 

 

and reset the setting.

 

 

 

 

 

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Lenovo L330 manual Password at restart, Uefi Bios Update Option, Memory Protection