Wiping a hard drive doesn’t always eradicate malware due to persistent malware types like rootkits and bootkits that hide outside hard drives and infect areas such as the device’s BIOS/UEFI and master boot record (MBR). Detecting such malware is challenging and requires close monitoring of computer performance, regular malware sweeps and cleaning. If malware persists, it indicates a larger issue that could require boot-level scanning or firmware updates.

Official CPU-Z And HWMonitor Installers Infected With Malware After Site Breach – HotHardware
Official CPU-Z And HWMonitor Installers Infected With Malware After Site Breach HotHardware
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