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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 scratch0
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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).
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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?0
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