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Hold up… You thought maybe you downloaded malware (which in this case that was not the only cause) so you took it upon yourself to reinstall windows on a company issued laptop?
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Why are you trying to fix it? Submit It ticket and it’s their problem.
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If you suspect malware alert it security immediately. Many malware act as a gateway to lock other systems. Yes you might get in trouble but I’d rather be yelled at for downloading something then yelled at for infecting my company servers will ransomware/malware.
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Atleast in my company a computer connecting without a company supplied image of windows will be denied. Completely understand you not connecting to the internet.
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This problem was not caused by you but could of been… Take this as a lesson to be more proactive in the future.
At that point it’s a single point of failure, hack that central repo and infect everything. Plus Linux is not centralized… That’s kinda the point, suse, Debian, arch, red hat all have their own repos…