documnet transfer from an infected computer?

[oOo sam lee oOo]

my sister got that aim virus thing a few weeks ago (and plus she's had a few virses from before), so she asked me to reformat, cus everything was just too slow. She actually asked me last year, and i told her thanksgiving 2004, but im just getting to it now . anyhoo, if i transfer all her music, documents, pictures, and that type of stuff onto a backup hard drive, is there achance the virus can come along with some of the stuff? what would be teh best way to check? cuz it would be best, if we coudl keep all her files.

thanks

 

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my sister got that aim virus thing a few weeks ago (and plus she's had a few virses from before), so she asked me to reformat, cus everything was just too slow. She actually asked me last year, and i told her thanksgiving 2004, but im just getting to it now . anyhoo, if i transfer all her music, documents, pictures, and that type of stuff onto a backup hard drive, is there achance the virus can come along with some of the stuff? what would be teh best way to check? cuz it would be best, if we coudl keep all her files.

thanks

If you transfer the files over theres always going to be a chance of infection.

However if you burn her files on a dvd for example, scan it with an up to date antivirus, and it comes out clean; you should be fine.

If you just going to straight transfer to a backup HD, then you better have some something like Norton Auto-Protect on just in case and scan those files.