-1

I'm running a seemingly normal Win10 system with updated drivers, both through standard Windows Updater and manual patching if a new driver is available.

The Dell logo flashes multiple times per boot. There is always a long freeze every boot. Computer is running standard programs poorly. Webshells of websites are now the standard.

reinstalling the OS does nothing.

How do I delouse my machine?

Win10 Home - 10.19044 Build 19044 CPU: i5-8300H System Dell G3 3779 SMBIOS Ver. 0886 Bios Ver. 1.18.0 9/22/2021 GPU: GTX1060M RAM: 16Gb

  • There is no evidence that you have an infection, so you need to diagnose your machine first. And unfortunately, we are not tech support. The duplicate might provide some help. – schroeder Dec 28 '21 at 14:23

1 Answers1

1

Curious what you mean by "Webshells". There is such a thing as a web shell, but it's extremely unlikely you're seeing even one, much less one for every site you visit, unless you're specifically trying to. Actual malware wouldn't do that either. So I assume you mean something else but I don't know what. CSS (stylesheets) not loading? Dynamic content not populating HTML templates?


That sounds much more like a hardware issue (misconfigured or dodgy RAM, underperforming power supply, glitchy add-in board, HD/SSD/CPU/chipset on the edge of death) or possibly firmware issue (though I'd hesitate to update firmware on a machine glitching so badly unless the mobo has a built-in rollback feature) than like a software one. This is especially true if reinstalling the OS doesn't fix it.

Assuming it's a hardware issue, that isn't relevant to Security.SE, but you might be able to find help elsewhere for diagnosing and fixing the issue. Regardless, make sure you have everything you care about backed up!


If the motherboard firmware (UEFI, often incorrectly still called BIOS) is actually compromised/malicious, then... well, you can try updating it, but I wouldn't expect that to work. It shouldn't be possible on most systems to load unofficial firmware, actually, but some boards have worse security than others, or maybe you turned off signature checking at some point.

If some other device (HD/SSD?) has bad firmware... that's technically possible but I'd be even more surprised. You can check by swapping the storage to a different machine (or another machine's storage into this one) and seeing how it works then?

CBHacking
  • 40,303
  • 3
  • 74
  • 98
  • Constantly recycled content and heavily edited content online. Also my files have been compromised with deletes, partial deletes (edits), and placing deleted files back on my computer as well as adding files like images of memes to my machine. I have rolled back the firmware and gone back to reinstalling from scratch as much as possible without wiping the Win10 recovery. – Pocketbooks Dec 28 '21 at 01:38