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Is it still good practice to reinstall everything after you are owned?
- Subject: Is it still good practice to reinstall everything after you are owned?
- From: skquinn at rushpost.com (Shawn K. Quinn)
- Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 09:22:48 -0500
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On 09/19/2017 06:37 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> Is it still good practice to reinstall everything after you are owned?
>
> It used to be, but after reading about windows viruses I am not sure it
> is.
If you are running an OS besides Windows or MacOS, yes.
It is never a good idea to install Windows to begin with, let alone
reinstall it after it's been hacked once.
It's only a slightly better idea to install MacOS to begin with.
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