EnterTheWormhole
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I'm not getting into details, but my computer was taken by the police recently.
But they gave it back. I will never hook this computer back up to the Internet until I completely scrub it of any trackers/warez.
If I could afford it I would just scrap this computer and build new, but damn this thing is/has been a beast in many ways for me over the years, so I'm have some nostalgia in trying to keep it. Plus the new comp I would build will cost me at least a G with the way I would build it and if I could just clean my original, it's got plenty of horses under the hood for an upcoming major project I really need it for.
I'm getting a new SSD for OS (think I'm going back to Ubuntu from Win7)
But I also want to run/clean the mobo/bios/anything else for keyloggers or any malware at all they may have installed.
Is it 100% possible to rid myself of any software they may have put on my mobo by doing some type of reset/wipe/clean of bios? Would there be anything else to consider?
What about the memory sticks, could they install/embed any malware of any kind in them? I'm not opposed to buying new memory if they could.
No this post is not a joke and real help is greatly appreciated. I think I put this in the right place on the forum... If not mods please move.
Thanks.
But they gave it back. I will never hook this computer back up to the Internet until I completely scrub it of any trackers/warez.
If I could afford it I would just scrap this computer and build new, but damn this thing is/has been a beast in many ways for me over the years, so I'm have some nostalgia in trying to keep it. Plus the new comp I would build will cost me at least a G with the way I would build it and if I could just clean my original, it's got plenty of horses under the hood for an upcoming major project I really need it for.
I'm getting a new SSD for OS (think I'm going back to Ubuntu from Win7)
But I also want to run/clean the mobo/bios/anything else for keyloggers or any malware at all they may have installed.
Is it 100% possible to rid myself of any software they may have put on my mobo by doing some type of reset/wipe/clean of bios? Would there be anything else to consider?
What about the memory sticks, could they install/embed any malware of any kind in them? I'm not opposed to buying new memory if they could.
No this post is not a joke and real help is greatly appreciated. I think I put this in the right place on the forum... If not mods please move.
Thanks.
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