Windows 10: My laptop has been hacked and now inaccessible

Hi. its currently in a recovery death spiral and does not let me access the windows sign in anymore. I attempted everything to restore, forced repair but it simply is preventying me from doing anything. such as using a USB, disc iso, or system image. I got to 60% using a USB, but then it said windows install failed, I did this twice but still no joy! Its a Samsung Galaxy book pro machine and I attempted to access the BIOS, pressing the number 4 or 5 on reset, but it wont let me in. Its a windows 11 machine and is running up to date, Friday night it appeared to crash, something appeared on the

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Email Hacked

Hello Greg

thank you for your response and the great information you provided.

I use two step authentication for my email account and all important web sites. I also use the full version of Malwarebytes to protect my computer.

But I will do the scans you suggested AdwCleaner and Limewire.com and let you know the results.

I am worried though that the webcam installed on my laptop could have been hacked. I never use it and forgot about it, so never disabled it.

Any suggestions as to find if it was actually hacked?

thank you

mike

 

Laptop Hacked - Password Changed

Okay.... I followed all the steps in Option Four right up to Step 8,


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where unlike the Tutorial, I got HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\REM_SAM\SAM\Domains\Account\Users\000001F4. No 'S' in the word Account.

Then, in Step 9, when I opened the 000001F4 key, I was instructed to change 11 to 10 in the first column of line 0038. On the problem laptop, the first column of line 0038 has a value of 15, not 11. I would supply a screenshot but I don't know how to do that on a computer that won't start.

So I didn't do anything. I obviously need more help.