x98 pro arrived fom GearBest riddled with malware

[Dirkblaster]

Maybe worth grabbing the factory image from the downloads section and reflashing windows from scratch (just in case recovery partition has malware inside too) if you’re concerned?

[mitrou]

is your time/date correct?

[TheChodax .]

Yep all fine, time is set correctly and stays correct after power cycle.

[TheChodax .]

Some suspicious stuff coming up with Spybot…

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[TheChodax .]

Have considered that but worried about ending up wrecking the tablet, going to exhaust cleaning it up before I take that route.

[TheChodax .]

So, it appears that although windows states I have administrator rights I can’t actually perform full administrator functions, have tried running sfc /scannow from the command line and it tells me I don’t have access rights. I then decided to create an additional account, it allowed me and I assigned administrator rights to that but I still can’t run the command I want.

 

Just to check I ran a full Malwarebytes with root kit scan enabled and the brand now account had 2 x PUP’s installed as per the picture. This is definitely looking the tablet has been compromised at root level so I’ll probably have to do a factory image install when I get a bit of time and hope that is clean. Have tried to download the images but the links appear to be dead in the download section.

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[pierre]

i find two with malwares bytes, anyway i wanted to reinstall windows in my language, i did it with the original version that i found in microsoft website, i just back up the original drivers for reinstallation after windows install 😉

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