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Grandma Got Hacked for Christmas

Nothing quite says "Happy Holidays" like discovering that a family member's bank account has been hacked. Everyone believes that some malware found its way to an unprotected system, spotted the on-line banking activity, captured the credentials and dutifully transmitted them or awaited further instructions from whoever had control of this machine.  What's interesting about this case is that the bank has asked for the hard drive of the compromised PC.  What would you do?

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