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How to Protect My External 1TB Drive from Viruses Infections?
Dear All ,
My question simply , that I'm using a hard drive For Backup Purpose , and Due to my Job Duties I'll be Plugging this Hard Drive to Various Computers , what I'm afraid of that if I plugged such Drive on an Infected Computer it My spread infection to my Drive , Especially that My hard drive have Many Executable File , which i can lose them forever Because they are rare to be found again if they were infected .
- So how to Protect my Hard Drive when I'm plugging it to Various Computers ??
Best Regards
M Hadoka
My question simply , that I'm using a hard drive For Backup Purpose , and Due to my Job Duties I'll be Plugging this Hard Drive to Various Computers , what I'm afraid of that if I plugged such Drive on an Infected Computer it My spread infection to my Drive , Especially that My hard drive have Many Executable File , which i can lose them forever Because they are rare to be found again if they were infected .
- So how to Protect my Hard Drive when I'm plugging it to Various Computers ??
Best Regards
M Hadoka
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Zips and Rars can still be infected. password prtecting them would help but if you ever opened one on an infected PC infection is possible.
If it were me, I'd be ensuring all PC's have valid anti-virus before inserting the drive like garycase said, and also copying the crucial files off to DVD on a regular basis. Assuming no virus's exist when you write to DVD, the DVD becomes safe as it's read only.
A variation on graycase's theme is you could also buy a 'U3' compatible USB drive. You can then install an anti-virus onto that and make sure you always keep it upto date. Then get in the habit of inserted the U3 drive first and activating the antivirus, before inserting the hard drive.
If it were me, I'd be ensuring all PC's have valid anti-virus before inserting the drive like garycase said, and also copying the crucial files off to DVD on a regular basis. Assuming no virus's exist when you write to DVD, the DVD becomes safe as it's read only.
A variation on graycase's theme is you could also buy a 'U3' compatible USB drive. You can then install an anti-virus onto that and make sure you always keep it upto date. Then get in the habit of inserted the U3 drive first and activating the antivirus, before inserting the hard drive.
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I finally found the solution ... simply I'll just change the extension of the executable files for example .. exe to be exee ... this will make viruses can't recognize that those file are executable ,, so they can't infect them .. I'm talking about viruses like jefo .. if anybody knows it ..which just attach it self to any executable file and can't be disinfected , so I'll do the above solution and when i plug it in infected computer I'll simply will copy the executable file and return its extension back ...
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- Pls Correct me if I'm Wrong