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An agent cleaned his laptop after a malware attack and removed every trace

After a fake Cloudflare page tricked him into infecting his own laptop, a man first tried AI, which refused the job. He then ran an agent on DeepSeek v4 Flash through opencode, and it did the full reverse engineering and forensics and deleted every trace of the malware.

How it works

  1. He asks the AI first and it refuses as out of scope
  2. He runs an opencode agent on DeepSeek v4 Flash
  3. The agent reverse engineers the malware and does full forensics on the machine
  4. It deletes every trace of the infection

Why it’s worth knowing

One agent refused the cleanup as out of scope; another took the machine apart in software and removed the infection completely.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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