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<blockquote data-quote="Digerati" data-source="post: 720082" data-attributes="member: 59833">As a PC technician with a repair shop, I would like to say there are no crooked shops, but sadly, I can&#039;t. Not all techs are honest. But they don&#039;t normally last long. And in the case of this malware, it really serves him no purpose. Again, it depends on him having physical access to your computer, twice. It would be much easier to him to install other malware that &quot;phones home&quot; with your data. You just need to keep Windows current, use a decent anti-malware solution (and Windows own Windows Defender is just fine for that). Then, regardless your primary scanner of choice, do supplemental scans with a secondary scanner just to make sure you, the user and always weakest link in security, didn&#039;t let something slip by. And if you have such valuable personal data on your computer that a technician would go to such extremes to get, never take your computer to the same repair shop twice. Better yet, learn to repair your own computers. Otherwise, it really sounds like you are being overly paranoid.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Digerati, post: 720082, member: 59833"] As a PC technician with a repair shop, I would like to say there are no crooked shops, but sadly, I can't. Not all techs are honest. But they don't normally last long. And in the case of this malware, it really serves him no purpose. Again, it depends on him having physical access to your computer, twice. It would be much easier to him to install other malware that "phones home" with your data. You just need to keep Windows current, use a decent anti-malware solution (and Windows own Windows Defender is just fine for that). Then, regardless your primary scanner of choice, do supplemental scans with a secondary scanner just to make sure you, the user and always weakest link in security, didn't let something slip by. And if you have such valuable personal data on your computer that a technician would go to such extremes to get, never take your computer to the same repair shop twice. Better yet, learn to repair your own computers. Otherwise, it really sounds like you are being overly paranoid. [/QUOTE]

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