Buying used computer - Sufficient scans

[Canada EH]

I bought a used PC from an IT guy. He looked alright, in an upscale neighborhood. Well I know where he lives so I doubt anything will happen.

 

But to ease my peace of mind what program should I install, and what system scan program should I use.

I got Kaspersky Free Internet Security, and Malwarebytes. I will also download MSE and run Defender.

But I got my LAN connection hooked up now so I am a bit weary. I had to connect LAN to get internet, for Kaspersky and most likely the others too.

 

Later on I will format the HDD's and reinstall W7 Pro 64 bit onto a small SSD. Maybe I should have done that right off the top.

[RGProductions]

1 minute ago, Canada EH said:

Yeah, do that first.

[Canada EH]

Just now, wrathoftheturkey said:

You're probably good, if too worried you can always just get a new hard drive.

I already got a small 120GB SSD, its got my old AMD Vista on there. But I never really used it as that system really sucked.

This new used system is just a i7-920 but the mobo can OC.

[DrM]

get crystaldisk and check the hdd health/smart data. thats likely to be more of an issue than malware.

[Enderman]

Use crystaldiskinfo to make sure your drives are ok, and if they are go ahead and reinstall windows.

[Canada EH]

11 minutes ago, DrM said:

get crystaldisk and check the hdd health/smart data. thats likely to be more of an issue than malware.

 

7 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Use crystaldiskinfo to make sure your drives are ok, and if they are go ahead and reinstall windows.

 

 

 

 

crystaldiskinfo

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

then this?

CrystalDiskInfo

A HDD/SSD utility software which supports a part of USB connection and Intel RAID.

>> Download

 

 

----------or this-----------------

 

Other open source hard disk monitoring projects

• smartmontools Home Page

[Enderman]

2 minutes ago, Canada EH said:

 

 

 

 

 

crystaldiskinfo

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

then this?

CrystalDiskInfo

A HDD/SSD utility software which supports a part of USB connection and Intel RAID.

>> Download

 

 

----------or this-----------------

 

Other open source hard disk monitoring projects

• smartmontools Home Page

The first one.