All-Radio 4.27 Portable Can't Be Removed? Then Your PC Is Severely Infected

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All-Radio 4.27 Portable Can't Be Removed? Then Your PC Is Severely Infected

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by Anonymous Coward writes:

How about you *don't* go to their forum and instead format everything and start again.
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  by Anonymous Coward writes:
  
  Reinstalling doesn't remove rootkits... that's what rootkits were designed for... to survive OS reinstalls.
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    by pnutjam ( 523990 ) writes:
    
    If you ensure you completely wipe the drive, by "nuking" it or formatting with different filesystems, for example xfs before reinstalling windows, it's pretty safe.
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      by Anonymous Coward writes:
      
      As long as the firmware of the hdd hasn't been subtly altered to hide things on the drive.
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        by pnutjam ( 523990 ) writes: <slashdotNO@SPAMborowicz.org> on Friday June 29, 2018 @02:45PM (#56866970) Homepage Journal
        
        I think this is 99% FUD. Drive firmware alteration would crash stuff and it's outside the norm for malware of the current generation.
        
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