SFC scans fail with the system could not perform the requested operation errors in both clean boot, safe boot and standard OS mode, PATH issues occur, and access denied errors start occuring on stuff it shouldnt. 'FixBoot commands fail with access denied or other random errors. MBR repairs fail and the MBR is seemingly corrupt when scanning. The symptoms take place at boot time and worsen once the OS loads to the desktop of local Admin a CMD window pops up as windows boots to desktop. The Symptoms have spanned across multiple windows based devices for going on 12 months now of around 16 hours a day working a Enterprise & SMB vCISO, Cybersecurity researcher and SaaS development position on the machine left standing throughout this infection, and simultaneously fighting against this intrusive infection that seemingly resembles a UEFI level bootkit. I have been struggling for quite awhile with a persistent infection that seems to persist through a full restore, clean boot, nuke and boot ie wipe and reformat SSD, wiping and using windows media recovery, OEM installer USBs, recovery media CD roms created from windows ISOs directly from within windows media creation manager, even through replacing physicical components such as GPU, CPU, PSU, RAM, SSDs,and Motherboards.
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