In an attempt to pirate windows, a coworker of mine has downloaded a fake windows activator from a website. he choose to disable KIS thinking the activator is genuine and install it. Now his computer behaving erratically.
I currently have windows 10 pre activated but I dont want to install windows 11 as an update, I wuant to do a clean install but therefore I will lose the activation right? I searched the megathread for the best win11 activator but didnt get a solid answer.
I have been recently wondering whether the option we have in windows 10 to reset the PC, which includes the reset function that does a deep scan and delete all files in all partitions and drives, get rid of viruses,malwares and especially, rootkits. Is deleting ALL files from ALL partitions good enough? or there is the chance that a rootkit gave itself the ability to not get erased?
It depends on how badly your computer is infected. Secure boot is designed to prevent this, but it would definitely be possible on say, a uefi computer with secure boot disabled for malware to install itself on the efi partition, loading windows after itself and removing any ability to overwrite it.