Most new computers nowadays do come with a recovery partition and the manufactures don’t seem to be worried that the partition will be infected.
Sounds like you have an old computer with standard BIOS instead of EUFI. Aren’t you worried about a boot sector virus which EUFI was designed to thwart?
Bought this computer when Win 7 came out and came with a free upgrade to Vista when that became available, and have since upgraded to WIN 10.. I keep up with all updates so that cuts down on vulnerability aspects considerably. So far the only problems I have encountered are adware, which I take out relatively quickly when I get them. Puter still works good, and since I go very few places anymore on the internet (compared to my past online activity profile) I am not that concerned. On top of that I do very little in the way of online banking & purchases nowadays. So my exposure is at a minimum. Also don’t have Facebook or any other social media type accounts that I am involved with. I checked and I am still running with BIOS (BIOS mode - Legacy), though I am sure I could switch to UEFI since I have a 64 bit system (system type - x64-based pc), but honestly do not know what that might involve to make that switch.