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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:45 am Post subject: |
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Zelda_454 wrote: | Yes. If you have a virus it will just get copied onto the flash drive, then onto your fresh installation of Windows. Reformatting with hope of removing viruses is useless if you just copy them back. | Very true. You can't possibly know where the virus has hidden & you're most likely going to transfer it to your usb drive as well as I doubt he knows how to pinpoint the exact locations of the virus & exclude those from being copied. It might be worth the shot, but it's usually not.
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