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<blockquote data-quote="WhatCanYouBelieve" data-source="post: 1102308" data-attributes="member: 117026">Hello Fellas,&nbsp; &nbsp; Somehow got the Chromstera Browser hijacker on my Windows Surface Laptop Go. Gave me hell, antiviruses would not do anything, custom uninstallers like YourUninstaller didn&#039;t help, hell, when I would try to reset my hard drive through system settings it would tell me &quot;There was an error resetting your pc&quot; even after numerous attempts. I decided to give something new a chance and installed Arch Linux on my laptop, ran some rootkit finders which didn&#039;t find anything, but doing some research I found that bugs can sill live on the Window&#039;s UEFI firmware? How can I test for that? Before installing Arch (and wiping the data off my C: drive in the process), I made sure that windows installer was up to date and the latest firmware was installed. I have secure boot turned off currently as the bootloader that Arch uses won&#039;t be recognized by microsoft, I&#039;m working on fixing that. Any guidance with further steps to take would be nice, telling me that I&#039;m being overly paranoid would be fine too, Thanks!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WhatCanYouBelieve, post: 1102308, member: 117026"] Hello Fellas, Somehow got the Chromstera Browser hijacker on my Windows Surface Laptop Go. Gave me hell, antiviruses would not do anything, custom uninstallers like YourUninstaller didn't help, hell, when I would try to reset my hard drive through system settings it would tell me "There was an error resetting your pc" even after numerous attempts. I decided to give something new a chance and installed Arch Linux on my laptop, ran some rootkit finders which didn't find anything, but doing some research I found that bugs can sill live on the Window's UEFI firmware? How can I test for that? Before installing Arch (and wiping the data off my C: drive in the process), I made sure that windows installer was up to date and the latest firmware was installed. I have secure boot turned off currently as the bootloader that Arch uses won't be recognized by microsoft, I'm working on fixing that. Any guidance with further steps to take would be nice, telling me that I'm being overly paranoid would be fine too, Thanks! [/QUOTE]

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