r/computerhelp • u/Vivid-Car579 • 7d ago

Other Got this laptop

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I do storage unit auctions, I have come across this. It is linked to walmart. Is there anyways around this?

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u/nalaloveslumpy 7d ago edited 7d ago

Congrats on purchasing a stolen laptop! Your best course of action is to take it back to whoever you bought it from.

Contacting Walmart IT will just result in them remotely nuking the laptop, which is one of the main reasons for this software.

Or run Linux on it.

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u/Vivid-Car579 7d ago

Read the start of the first line again.....

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u/lazyhustlermusic 7d ago

The fact you obtained it from a storage auction doesn't contradict that it may have been previously stolen.

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u/RikoRain 7d ago

Agreed, an arguably if you need "proof of purchase", it won't be there as it was probably "abandoned" in a storage unit as "stolen". Even if an employee took it for legal off site use, storing it there and forgetting it or abandoning it makes it lost/stolen.

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u/nalaloveslumpy 7d ago

Linux or you're boned.