Ok so this whole thing might sound a bit weird, but here goes. A few weeks ago I pulled a newer HP computer out of the dumpster at my apartment complex. I was actually just going to pull the dvd drive, but decided to power it up first to see if it worked. Well it booted right up and went onto a password protected win7 login screen. I decided after trying to reinstall windows 7, but it kept giving me an errror. So I then I decided to install Ubuntu, since I have always wanted to try linux. Ok enough back story. My question is: Now that I have installed Ubuntu, and deleted everything off the hard drive. If there was a virus on this PC before I installed ubuntu could the virus still be on the computer? I have never hooked the PC up to my network or had it online since I pulled it from the dumpster. Does having it online now possibly put my network and other devices at risk? I would really appreciate any help...
Thanks a lot!!!
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