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  • Bikertov
    Bikertov Posts: 1,598 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Worst, worst case and you can't fix this, is you still don't need a new laptop, just get a new hard drive for £25 and reinstall your chosen OS from scratch
  • bod1467
    bod1467 Posts: 15,214 Forumite
    Don't even necessarily need a new HDD. If there's a spare pendrive big enough to back up necessary data, just run a Linux LiveCD to save the data to pendrive, then reinstall Linux in the laptop using the same LiveCD (making sure to wipe/format the HDD as part of the process). :)
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0 Newbie
    Eighth Anniversary 10,000 Posts Debt-free and Proud!
    Are you sure they haven't just logged into the router?

    Have you changed the SSID, and, for safety sake, the user name and password to access the router controls?
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