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after building a new pc (all new hardware) after i installed it and only updated windows, my boot menu got corrupted entries in there with chinese signs. flashing BIOS just made that broken entry a empty string, still couldn't trust anything in my computer. had to buy all new hardware because the vendor didn't acknowledge it was broken. still not sure if it was supply chain compromise or someone MITMed my windows updates (???)

there's some crazy low level malware out there just running free. there are litteraly 0 products who can protect you from that. even thngs like qubes os etc. don't offer any protections from such a compormise, thought they might make the initial vector a tiny bit more compicated.

I've seen things like this. And I've tried all known virus scanners and protection tools. None work. You're not crazy. Perhaps the solution is older hardware (EBAY), Non x86 SBCs running Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_single-board_com..., a Purism Laptop: https://puri.sm/, and/or hardware which is so cheap such that you don't care if it gets bricked, i.e., spending $50 for a 10-pack of Raspberry Pi Zero's ($5 each) - https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero/ Welcome to 2018.