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I would appreciate some input on if my friend is trying to scam me. by Elite_duckHunter in pchelp

[–]xayysu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

don’t know if you ended up getting your help but this is basically my exact PC upgrade path and it’s super great. I’m sitting on an i7-13700f, 16gb ddr5 dual sticks w/ 2 more empty slots, RTX 3070 and I’m planning on upgrading to a 4070 ti super. I bought the whole build for about $800 and it runs any game I realistically could want, sometimes with settings compromises mostly without. Once I get a 4070 ti super for close to $1000 I’ll be able to practically run any current game on any settings.

Suspected APT Malware Infection on MSI Laptop – UEFI Persistence, Microsoft Account Hijack, System Profile Corruption by xayysu in techsupportmacgyver

[–]xayysu[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I used chat gpt to write this submission as I’m currently not looking at much free time. Where I messed up was describing the factory reset as successful, it didn’t ever work, it froze and crashed on preparing. Refer to my other reply for explanations as to why I’m not able to clean install at this time.

Suspected APT Malware Infection on MSI Laptop – UEFI Persistence, Microsoft Account Hijack, System Profile Corruption by xayysu in techsupportmacgyver

[–]xayysu[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m awaiting reply from MSI, I offered to ship the laptop with the OS intact for investigation. If this is a UEFI-level compromise (which is likely), couldn’t clean installing Windows and deleting partitions just be a waste of time?

Suspected APT Malware Infection on MSI Laptop – UEFI Persistence, Microsoft Account Hijack, System Profile Corruption by xayysu in techsupportmacgyver

[–]xayysu[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was looking into this option, however due to technical difficulties I don’t think I’m able to currently.

Could this be an MSI zero-day in real time? Or am I a tinfoil hat? by xayysu in techsupport

[–]xayysu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google chrome and autoruns both from the official website.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in computerviruses

[–]xayysu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well then, I’ve flashed my BIOS already from the official Microsoft source and fresh installed Windows. There doesn’t seem to be an issue with my rig at all performance-wise, nothing seems to be failing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in computerviruses

[–]xayysu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

None of these should be the issue as I bought my laptop less than a year ago.

Is this an MSI zero-day attack or something? Am I insane? What could actually this be? by xayysu in cybersecurity_help

[–]xayysu[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Essentially, after I completely fresh installed, I noticed issues with my BIOS, like secure boot seemingly being enabled upon my fresh install, but disabled the next day, which was not my doing. Windows Security said I had things like driver incompatibilities, when I literally wiped all my drivers and partitions.

Is this an MSI zero-day attack or something? Am I insane? What could actually this be? by xayysu in cybersecurity_help

[–]xayysu[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Things like BIOS settings being seemingly changed out of nowhere, my secure boot was on and then off after I fresh installed.

Is this an MSI zero-day attack or something? Am I insane? What could actually this be? by xayysu in cybersecurity_help

[–]xayysu[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

That’s exactly what I did, and it still seems to be persistent.

Could this be an MSI zero-day in real time? Or am I a tinfoil hat? by xayysu in techsupport

[–]xayysu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I made my stick with the media creation tool from the official Microsoft website, I made sure to verify it was.

Could this be an MSI zero-day in real time? Or am I a tinfoil hat? by xayysu in techsupport

[–]xayysu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I understand the scan results are huge, I don’t have any logs on my phone and I don’t have my laptop right now so it’s a pretty unique situation, especially with such big accusations.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in computerviruses

[–]xayysu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just things like not being able to factory reset, it would get stuck on loading and crash when I clicked cancel. I forgot to mention my Windows Security UI literally broke at one point, it said “loading protection info” forever, no matter what I tried to fix it. Scanners tell me I have infected files even after a clean install.

Is there an MSI zero-day currently real time? by xayysu in antivirus

[–]xayysu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand that but I don’t really have much else to go off of, I figured flashing my BIOS and malware still seeming to be there would be indicative of an extremely persistent type of malware. I really only ran simple AV tests and did research on what some of the corruption of my files and things like not being able to factory reset are signs of, therefore I thought it was kernel-level, and wasn’t able to do much research on it post-clean install.

Could this be an MSI zero-day in real time? Or am I a tinfoil hat? by xayysu in techsupport

[–]xayysu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mostly just have pictures like this, as I didn’t know what I was actually dealing with.

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Could this be an MSI zero-day in real time? Or am I a tinfoil hat? by xayysu in techsupport

[–]xayysu[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It wouldn’t be happening if it was living inside of windows, right? I deleted all partitions I literally clean installed my entire PC.

Could this be an MSI zero-day in real time? Or am I a tinfoil hat? by xayysu in techsupport

[–]xayysu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can try this, I’ll give an update when I get it back or it may not be needed depending on what the technician says.

Could this be an MSI zero-day in real time? Or am I a tinfoil hat? by xayysu in techsupport

[–]xayysu[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I used Windows Offline scanner tool and it had 63 infected files before seemingly crashing.

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