[giantg2]

I bought a Beelink a few years ago. It seemed to be fine. Normal malware scans didn't turn up anything, but I didn't dig too deep into that. Windows was very slow on it (as expected) so I put Linux on it for better performance.

As someone else mentioned, it's still possible there's some sort of firmware malware, such as the BIOS. I'm not sure that most normal scans would even catch that. I'm not too concerned since I don't do anything important or sensitive on that box.

On a side note, weren't the big vendors like Dell building in backdoor and stuff for the NSA too?