✴️ The news is grim if someone's broken into your computer, but there are steps to take to prevent it from happening again. ✴️ Computer compromised? Once your computer has been compromised, you can’t assume it’s yours anymore. The hacker could have left undetectable malware so they can continue to access the machine. The only safe solutions are to restore to an image backup taken prior to the compromise or to reinstall Windows (and everything else) from scratch. Updates, related links, and more discussion: 🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: ✅ Watch next ▶ My Machine’s Full of Malware; Should I Get a New Computer? ▶ Chapters 0:00 Compromised Computer 1:05 Perfect security doesn't exist 1:40 It’s not your computer anymore 2:12 Restore from backup 3:30 Assume the worst: rebuild from scratch 4:20 Moving forward ❤️ My best articles: ❤️ My Most Important Article: More Ask Leo! ☑️ to get your questions answered ☑️ to subscribe to the Confident Computing newsletter. ☑️ to help support Ask Leo! ☑️ for even more! #askleo #malware #hacker