hacked by the (alleged) `amazon-security' scammers

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi Liam,

On Thu, 25 Nov 2021 at 21:33, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> Don't worry. You don't need to destroy your drives, or your PC. Once
> it has the partitions deleted, new Linux ones put on instead, and they
> have been formatted -- which is part of the installation process --
> that PC is *clean*. 100% guaranteed or your money back.
>

I might be being too cautious here, but if you are dealing with a drive
with an uncertain past, shouldn't you ensure the MBR gets wiped as well? I
tend to use dban to wipe such drives with dban before installing Ubuntu on
them. When I install Ubuntu on such a drive, I always choose the "Wipe hard
drive and install Ubuntu" option (apologies - trying to remember the
precise wording of that option and failing.

I suppose, whenever you run sudo update-grub it overwrites the code in the
MBR anyway - my approach might be redundant?

Does that make sense?

BW,


Ian

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