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Started by tenroom , Dec 15 2008 11:23 AM

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#1 tenroom

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Posted 15 December 2008 - 11:23 AM

Hi

I'm running Vista Ultimate on a Dell M1530 with 2.2GHz, 4GB RAM. I recently had to remove the original Toshiba hard disk after some erratic behaviour from the Vista Home Premium operating system.

I installed a new hard disk and installed Ultimate. I have some very important files on the original hard disk and wondered if anyone could tell me how to connect the old HD to the laptop without the virus/rootkit/malware making its way over to the new hard drive. I have MBAM, GMER and Super Antispyware installed on my computer.

Do I need to start the laptop in Safe Mode ? Any assistance greatly appreciated !!

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Posted 16 December 2008 - 01:59 PM

If you are using a portable hard drive enclosure for the transfer, you can scan it with various scanners
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#3 PropagandaPanda

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Posted 17 December 2008 - 02:46 AM

Hello.

Worms that transfer through portable drives use the autorun.inf.

Running Flash Disinfector in the flash drive usually works.
Download and Run FlashDisinfector

Please download Flash_Disinfector.exe by sUBs and save it to your desktop.
Double-click Flash_Disinfector.exe to run it and follow any prompts that may appear.
The utility may ask you to insert your flash drive and/or other removable drives including your mobile phone. Please do so and allow the utility to clean up those drives as well.
Wait until it has finished scanning and then exit the program.
Reboot your computer when done.

Note: Flash_Disinfector will create a hidden folder named autorun.inf in each partition and every USB drive plugged in when you ran it. Don't delete this folder. It will help protect your drives from future infection.

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