My Mac Book Air is professionally attacked; how to clean laptop?

Hi, nice and intelligent people:
I took my computer to a sketchy Korean repair shop. They told me that they used "Inception" to hack into my computer, laughing as they handed my computer to me. (http://www.breaknenter.org/projects/inception/) Nervous, I reviewed my computer and decided to do a clean wipe and not access the internet. After a fortnight of tension, stress, cigarettes and alcohol, my computer has been wiped three times given several symptoms --text being altered before my eyes, strange "VGA" looking logo near the battery-menu appearing on my login window, odd text across screen when "fast switching" users, missing programs from dock, changed user and admin settings, missing files, checked remote-login and screen-sharing, and a slew of other unexplainable incidents. The problem is that the symptoms have reappeared. Also, every time I change my passwords, including my firmware password, they seem to have it. I'm afraid they may have done something to my BIOS, or placed something "buried". Any ideas or solutions to wipe the computer absolutely? Help?
(Incidentally, I gave up on an iphone 5 with the same symptoms and "buried" issues. I just saw a flashes of what appeared to be an icon, an icon of a tablet being turned off or on? I've seen it before on this "infected" phone. My life is a digital disaster. I wouldn't want my worst enemy to endure my life at all.)
Thanks and does anyone know how to attack hackers from a hacked computer? Help, please.

The only real way to completely erase the drive would be to use the Internet Recovery System that Apple has for re-installing.
Boot the computer and hold cmd+option/alt+r
This should take you to the Internet recovery. This is important because it's different from just accessing the recovery partition which is constantly on your machine. This way you are accessing a fresh copy of everything directly from the Apple servers.
Once you've loaded the Internet recovery (can take some time as it's downloading items to use), go to Disk Utility and re-partition your hard drive with 1 new partition (this will ensure that anything that was on the machine will be deleted completely. Both in your software and from the recovery partition.
Continue to use the internet recovery to then install Mavericks on to your machine.
You can always look here (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718) for information on OS X recovery.
Hopefully this helps
-Dib

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