Noob Question

[botpaket]

I have a laptop with a lot of movies, program, games that i need for my new PC

but i think my laptop have a lot of virus even though i already clean it using malwarebytes premium + Windows defender + avast

 

my question is

if i use a flash drive and format it to fat32 and copy my games to the new PC

will the flashdrive carry a virus from the laptop too? (if there is a virus left on my laptop)

[Sequence]

no it wont unless you also transfer the virus/infected file along with it.

[Xsinar]

Well you can always scan your flash drive after you finish coping your files just to make sure that there are no virus (most probably there won't be any viruses).

[BurgerBum]

As far as i know nope. Its safe.

personally im the kinda person that will just live with re-downloading my 6 terabyte collection of steam games because i like having peace of mind.

(Im paranoid AF)

[botpaket]

As far as i know nope. Its safe.

personally im the kinda person that will just live with re-downloading my 6 terabyte collection of steam games because i like having peace of mind.

(Im paranoid AF)

 

 

Well you can always scan your flash drive after you finish coping your files just to make sure that there are no virus (most probably there won't be any viruses).

 

 

no it wont unless you also transfer the virus/infected file along with it

I see

Thank you guys !

[botpaket]

Update : why is my new PC cannot scan the flash drive?

using malwarebytes and windows defender

malwarebytes detected items 0 , so malwarebytes cannot detect the flash drive

and windows defender just stuck on progress bar and my real time protection turned off because windows defender thinks that it was my hard drive that cannot be scanned

@Sequence @Xsinar @BurgerBum

[Xsinar]

Update : why is my new PC cannot scan the flash drive?

using malwarebytes and windows defender

malwarebytes detected items 0 , so malwarebytes cannot detect the flash drive

and windows defender just stuck on progress bar and my real time protection turned off because windows defender thinks that it was my hard drive that cannot be scanned

 

Try this Link for Malwarebytes : http://www.sevenforums.com/system-security/169063-malwarebytes-external-hard-drive.html

Try this Link for Windows Defender : http://blog.laptopmag.com/how-to-scan-external-drives-for-malware-in-windows-8

 

Hope this helps.

 

Edit: You need to do a Full Scan see the link for details

[botpaket]

Try this link : http://www.sevenforums.com/system-security/169063-malwarebytes-external-hard-drive.html

 

Hope this helps.

Yup i did those step

the weird thing is

i tried to scan on my laptop

the malwarebytes is successfull

right now i'm trying the windows defender one, but i think it stuck

items scanned is only at 6