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Laptop Virus
john fechon
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My friend's laptop recently got virused to all hell. I messed with it a little, but it has a celeron, and combined with whatever is going on in there, its about a 20 minute startup and just clicking the start menu takes a few minutes(actually takes minutes, we would set it down and watch the game while we waited for a response). I have an adapter that lets you plug the laptop hard drive into a desktop.
My question is this:
Is it safe to plug the laptop hard drive into my desktop so I can run virus scans/try to fix it and grab any personal files he has? Could the virus spread to my desktop hard drive when its connected?
My question is this:
Is it safe to plug the laptop hard drive into my desktop so I can run virus scans/try to fix it and grab any personal files he has? Could the virus spread to my desktop hard drive when its connected?
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Best option would be to boot the laptop to safe mode and run the virus scan there.