Nasty Computer Problem I Cannot Solve!
I have got a nasty problem going on with my computer that I cannot solve. I work from home, but I worked for Microsoft 10 years ago. I am a techy person and am very security conscious but this problem has me completely stumped.
I have reformatted my computer at least 6 times, if not more, and done complete re-installs. I have used software that deletes all partitions and overwrites every single byte on the hard drive with 1s and 0s, I have wiped the drive including the master boot
record, I have purchased a new router and I log in as a user vs. an administrator but this problem keeps coming back with a vengeance.
I have used several virus checkers. It does not seem to be a virus or a rootkit. It turns off the firewall, opens ports, and turns my life upside down.
No matter what I have done thus far, this problem keeps finding me. It locks down security policies and ultimately turns me into a user and the last time I tried to block it, I lost all admin privileges, they are completely taken away.
This problem is something I have been struggling with for months and with everything I have tried and the investigating I have done; I have determined that my computer thinks it is a work station reporting to a windows server version 8 or 12. It is obeying
the server and overriding the simple settings that you can do in the control panel through the security policies. This person/problem has more authority than I do, it can override everything I do.
When I turn off settings such as do not allow remote connections, it doesn’t work.
Are there services or settings I can disable or turn off to stop my computer from turning into a controlled work station and not allow this to happen? I want this turned back into my little home computer and completely password protected.
I appreciate any help or solutions you may be able to give me.
Thank you.
Hi,
As Lewis mentioned before, what is shown up under control panel\system, computer name, domain and workgroup settings?
If this is connected to a domain, we can run gpresult /r or rsop to check the group policy applied to the machine.
but according to your description, I guess this machine should be a standalone workstation, so it is not controlled by any DC\servers. Since you've tried to reinstall the system for multi times, and the issue persists, so I'd like to know the installation
media or image you used to install the system. If the media or image contains some third party program or additional settings, then that might explain why the system behaves abnormal, so maybe we can try another installation disk.
Regarding to the badbios virus, I did some research on the internet, if we got a issue like this, it's recommended to reset the bios or update to the latest version of the BIOS. Personally, I recommended you contact PC vender or send the pc to a vender
shop and see if they have any ideas.
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