I might have a virus on an external drive so I'm reluctant to plug it in. What's the odds of transferring something evil to the C:\ drive?
Or, a better question, how should I deal with this situation?
Thanks - rev
Printable View
I might have a virus on an external drive so I'm reluctant to plug it in. What's the odds of transferring something evil to the C:\ drive?
Or, a better question, how should I deal with this situation?
Thanks - rev
Install Panda USB Vaccine, or BitDefender’s USB Immunizer on GOOD computer to protect it from any infected USB device.
Then scan the drive with your AV program.
Excellent thanks!
You're very welcome http://dev.discussions.virtualdr.forums.relay.cool/
Broni:
I also threw in:
* Semana
* Security Task Manager, and
* rkill.
Semana and rkill both found additional serious threats and Security Task Manager allows you to investigate suspicious stuff by looking at the results of many many different anti-virus scans. For example, utorrent had a very high risk rating (90 out of 100) but is deemed harmless by a long list of anti-virus programs.
When in doubt and you have conflicting verdicts from different anti-malware programs, assume all are accurate and debug accordingly. If you have a spare machine, plug it into that and see what happens before you plug the suspect HDD into your vital machine.
Cześć Broni, sto lat!
Thank you :)
Same to you :)