G+_Philip Florio Posted September 27, 2014 Share Posted September 27, 2014 Can a Bad USB infection on a PC carry over to another computer? I received some photos to work on from another photographer, she uses SanDisk 64Gb thumbdrives. My main computer is a Windows 7 Pro, I attached these thumbdrives to my Windows 8.1 PC, from there I copied them to an external drive to then copy to my Win7 PC. Does this interface protect my main computer from Bad USB? The computer are on a home network but they aren't sharing over it. On the Win 8.1 I did the basics, scanned with Eset and Defender. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dallam Oliver-Lee Posted September 27, 2014 Share Posted September 27, 2014 It can infect every computer it touches depending if its a BadUSB and how its programmed. I usually prefer CD/DVD-RW's from people when they want to share files. Currently, there's no fix for Bad USB. Best rule is keep physical control of the USB devices and avoid outside USB devices like a USB thumbdrive. I complete understand how Bad USB can be done becuase one of my USB wifi adapters is also a USB thumb drive at the same time because it stores the drivers for the wifi adapter on the thumbdrive portion of it.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Philip Florio Posted September 27, 2014 Author Share Posted September 27, 2014 Optical option for me isn't an answer, the first batch was 60GB. As far as I know this photographer is the only one who handles them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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