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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think they meant it as "once infected may be impossible to disinfect." But it sure doesn't read that way at first glance.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did they change it? Because now it says "Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections" and that seems to say exactly what you are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Surely one could use the same exploit to restore the original boot code as the malware used to corrupt it