Hello all. My friend's harddrive is loaded with virus and I was thinking to do a scan on it using my computer by attaching his harddrive as secondary drive to my computer. Will this put my computer in danger even though i'm not going to run any of the programs on his harddrive? Thanks
Scanning virus on secondary drive
- Thread starter bencmcb
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chibicitiberiu
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It's not safe though. You never know what 'ideas' these viruses get, they can spread ways you never imagined, without you having to do anything. A quick way is for a virus to create a 'autorun.ini' file on the infected drive which points to an infected program, and you trying to access that drive you in fact open the infected program and infect your whole system.
You should get ComboFix (link: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix ). Here also shows how to use it. Put it on a portable disk (floppy if it fits, flash disk, cd, etc) and transfer to the infected computer, and run the program. Post the log here.
You should get ComboFix (link: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix ). Here also shows how to use it. Put it on a portable disk (floppy if it fits, flash disk, cd, etc) and transfer to the infected computer, and run the program. Post the log here.
cohen
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If after that you are still infected, please post a Hijackthis log. To post a Hijackthis log, please do the following:
Click Here to download HJTsetup.exe
* Save HJTsetup.exe to your desktop.
* Double click on the HJTsetup.exe icon on your desktop.
* By default it will install to C:\Program Files\Hijack This.
* Continue to click Next in the setup dialogue boxes until you get to the Select Additional Tasks dialogue.
* Put a check by Create a desktop icon then click Next again.
* Continue to follow the rest of the prompts from there.
* At the final dialogue box click Finish and it will launch Hijack This.
* Click on the Do a system scan and save a log file button. It will scan and then ask you to save the log.
* Click Save to save the log file and then the log will open in notepad.
* Click on "Edit > Select All" then click on "Edit > Copy" to copy the entire contents of the log.
* DO NOT have Hijack This fix anything yet. Most of what it finds will be harmless or even required.
We will look at your log as soon as we see it, and give you further instructions on how to fix your computer. Most of the time it will involve downloading more programs that will either give us logs to locate the malware or delete those malware.
Once you have posted a HJT Thread DO NOT make any changes to your PC unless the advisor helping you has instructed you to do so!
then we will go from there....
Click Here to download HJTsetup.exe
* Save HJTsetup.exe to your desktop.
* Double click on the HJTsetup.exe icon on your desktop.
* By default it will install to C:\Program Files\Hijack This.
* Continue to click Next in the setup dialogue boxes until you get to the Select Additional Tasks dialogue.
* Put a check by Create a desktop icon then click Next again.
* Continue to follow the rest of the prompts from there.
* At the final dialogue box click Finish and it will launch Hijack This.
* Click on the Do a system scan and save a log file button. It will scan and then ask you to save the log.
* Click Save to save the log file and then the log will open in notepad.
* Click on "Edit > Select All" then click on "Edit > Copy" to copy the entire contents of the log.
* DO NOT have Hijack This fix anything yet. Most of what it finds will be harmless or even required.
We will look at your log as soon as we see it, and give you further instructions on how to fix your computer. Most of the time it will involve downloading more programs that will either give us logs to locate the malware or delete those malware.
Once you have posted a HJT Thread DO NOT make any changes to your PC unless the advisor helping you has instructed you to do so!
then we will go from there....