Hi. I have a laptop HP Compaq 6710b and a SSD disk Samsung 860 EVO and according to the HP security software, the HP Protect Tools with the Embedded Security addon, I am receiving dictionary attacks leading to crack my BIOS password. This password is necessary to activate the Class 0 hardware encryption of my SSD according to the Samsung Magician software. I have configurated so that if a dictionary attack is received, Embedded Security is automatically disabled for a day and therefore during that time system doesn´t ask me for the BIOS password when starting and I have to reactivate manually after each attack. But when BIOS haven´t a password, the Class 0 encryption be deactivated and those attacks, although they do not serve to find the password because it is blocked as protection after several tries, they serve to remove the encryption automatically each time these atacks happens. I can configure Embedded Security so that it never can be deactivated but if I have a good firewall (ESET Internet Security), I don´t understand how these attacks are not blocked by the firewall. Can somebody help me?,
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