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HDD imaging/cloning

Lets say you use a product like Acronis Drive Image or similar to clone your HDD...is there any sort of filter on these products to stop viruses and malware all being tranferred over to the new hard disk as well?


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No.  If the source was infected, the clone will be infected also.
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Well, you were doing ok until you put in your challenge and your name, thus making my previous post still the most concise.
At the moment there just doesn't exist any cloning software that filters out malware, so there isn't a positive answer to your question. Appart from that, as such cloning software often is used for backup purposes (you can create an image file), and a lot of new malware may only be reqognized as such somewhat later, it is quite possible that a new virus or similar would not be be reqognizable yet at the time the archiving / cloning occurs, there sometimes may not be a point in trying to clean such things out. This would only cause the user to falsly think the image is completly clean.

What you can do with trueimage of acronis is, once you have the image, you can mount this on a running system, then you can run antimalware on this image which would allow you to identify which files you'd have to get rid of, once you have restored that image later...
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Thank u everyone for those helpful replies.

Charlietou - taking brevity to the extremes!
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Thanks for the points.
Glad I could help.  :-)