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| Thread ID: 100031 | 2009-05-23 21:00:00 | Do virus infections jump the fence? | minster (9180) | Press F1 |
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| 776251 | 2009-05-23 21:00:00 | 160GB SataII plus 500GB SataII Hard drives installed in pc. 160 is "C" and "E" Drives Seperate 500GB for data/backup only is "F" "G" "H" drives. Question: If main drives "C" or "E" was to ever get infected by (Virus/Trojan) is it likely that data/backups on "F" "G" "H" would be hit as a result? Just wondering as I have a lot of important stuff on the backup drive. |
minster (9180) | ||
| 776252 | 2009-05-23 21:06:00 | Nope I dont think so, thats why you make partitions. But if you had a card reader, and C was infected, and someone used a memory card or something, then the virus may go from C to the memory card to whatever the memory card is plugged into. Likewise if you had a USB flash drive, it could also get infected. If there was something on C, you plug the USB flash drive into another computer, that'll also get infected. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 776253 | 2009-05-23 21:34:00 | Nope I dont think so, thats why you make partitions. Are you sure? I would have thought this was completely possible. If all the drives are connected to the same computer, and a virus can run on that computer and do what it wants, I don't see why the virus can't cause damage to all of the partitions. I'd say that to be safe, you should backup to DVDs, an external hard drive or a separate computer. |
ad_267 (6193) | ||
| 776254 | 2009-05-23 21:37:00 | Of course a virus can be on other partitions. However to activate it needs to be run and then needs an operating system. But it can be sitting on another partition. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 776255 | 2009-05-23 23:04:00 | Of course a virus can be on other partitions. However to activate it needs to be run and then needs an operating system. But it can be sitting on another partition. X2 of course it can - seen it happen many times & if it were a network virus it could infect all networked PC's. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 776256 | 2009-05-23 23:10:00 | Definetly. Thats how viruses spread....they copy themselves to everything they can, which is how they get on flash drives and get spread around... Only way to make sure they can't infect it is to make the drive accessible to an Administrator only, or encrypt it. Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 776257 | 2009-05-23 23:19:00 | Well of course it'll / can get hit if its networked. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 776258 | 2009-05-23 23:51:00 | Yes.All drives/partitions can be infected.You only have to run Combofix to see that.They get in via the mountpoints.Here is an example from a Combofix log.The J:\ drive here has an infection. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\curre ntversion\explorer\mountpoints2\{4318e2d4-0356-11de-a8d9-001111ce353f}] \Shell\AutoRun\command - J:\S23et.exe -a In this case both the file and the mountpoint registry entry has to be removed. |
Pancake (6359) | ||
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