Is it still good practice to reinstall everything after you are owned?

Shawn K. Quinn skquinn at rushpost.com
Tue Sep 19 07:22:48 PDT 2017


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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