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Re:Ask HN: Grandma's computer compromised by scammer, how to... by dracul104 on Friday May 27, 2016 @04:49PM (#11788900)
Back in Win XP days, I caught a nasty virus that installed itself in the master boot record of the hard drive. I formatted the partition, reinstalled everything, and the damn thing kept coming back. Paranoia made me switch to Linux for a while after that.
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Re:Ask HN: Grandma's computer compromised by scammer, how to... by _RPM on Friday May 27, 2016 @04:55PM (#11788936)
Is it possible that an OS could be the one loading Linux, and thus would effect your Linux instance?

edit: I used to get really paranoid after using Windows for an extended period of time. Still do sometimes, but learned to live with it. I feel like I have no control over what services are listening on 0.0.0.0, the firewall is completely unusable compared to iptables.

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