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Gigachadtoday at 12:06 AM4 repliesview on HN

Realistically if you have installed malware, you need to do a full wipe of your computer anyway.


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eqvinoxtoday at 12:37 AM

[On Linux:]

If you didn't give yourself "free" (passwordless) sudo, that's not necessary…

…unless it happened in a week with 2 and a half Linux kernel LPEs.

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gorgoilertoday at 11:13 AM

It’s like if a bandaid fell into the soup pot. You could solve the problem by (A) fishing it out and giving the soup a good boil; or (B) new soup please!

sigzerotoday at 12:51 AM

It's the "nuke it from orbit" approach but "the only way to be sure".

nsonhatoday at 4:14 AM

you're gonna need the infected device as is for forensics