Timeline for What is the safe way to scan external drive for viruses
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| Dec 14, 2014 at 8:36 | comment | added | DavidPostill♦ | Sounds like the Windows machine where you plugged in your USB drive had the hidden folder virus | |
| Dec 14, 2014 at 8:05 | comment | added | Kinnectus | I see, home = Mac, school = PC. Don't worry. A Windows virus won't infect a Mac because the two OS architectures are wildly different. | |
| Dec 14, 2014 at 1:00 | comment | added | Eray | No it's not OS X .It's Windows. | |
| Dec 14, 2014 at 0:24 | comment | added | Ramhound | Your school uses OS X if not then it's not infected | |
| Dec 14, 2014 at 0:20 | comment | added | Eray | @Ramhound , when I plug it in PC at my school, suddenly my all files disappeared (they marked as hidden file) and new files appeared with same file names . | |
| Dec 14, 2014 at 0:19 | comment | added | Eray | @BigChris But I don't know which files are clean ? | |
| Dec 13, 2014 at 23:56 | comment | added | Ramhound | What makes you think its infected? | |
| Dec 13, 2014 at 23:05 | comment | added | Kinnectus | Use something life a LiveCD that can read HFS and copy your known clean files/backups off. If there are no programs running that are likely to "revive" or "feed" the virus then it can't cause any damage or infect other devices. You should also ensure you have more than one backup of your important data. There is no excuse for no or less than 2 backups anymore. | |
| Dec 13, 2014 at 21:34 | history | asked | Eray | CC BY-SA 3.0 |