My aunt is technologically illiterate (no offense to her). As a result, she calls on me whenever she has a computer problem that she can't figure out. Also, she got her daughter (my cousin) a laptop for Christmas, so of course one would expect the number of computer issues to rise. Well, tonight was one of those nights.
The laptop would start, but then it wouldn't load the taskbar and desktop. I immediately expected malware, and so agreed to go take a look. When I got there, I was confronted with a window that called itself "Windows Privacy Tools", along with a billion error dialogs about memory access. What's more, I couldn't interact with the window in any way, Ctrl+Alt+Delete did nothing, and even Ctrl+Shift+Esc did nothing. I had no choice but to reboot. The windows login screen popped up innocently enough, but when I clicked the Log In button, a strange...
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