This is a really hard way to learn to keep your personal accounts off of work devices. That has to hurt.
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Why not relegate Windows to a VirtualBox environment? That way you can just turn it off when you’re not using it and not need to reboot. You can use the guest additions and everything to get your proper native screen resolution and pass through USB devices etc.
You can be the most diligent, tech-savvy, cyber warfare general of nato and all it takes is one second of not thinking and a click…
Was it an actual zip file that managed to exploit some vulnerability in the program that opened it or was it something like “filename.zip.exe” and windows hid the .exe part?
A cautionary tale from the digital trenches. Good luck with the cleanup.