Sharing Files With A Friend But Concerned About Virus Infection

[vagabond48]

I have some music on my external drive that an acquaintance would like to get.

I am concerned about attaching my drive to his PC.

He also has a 4G flash drive that I can transfer a small number files.

"If" his PC was infected with viruses, trojans or worms,

is there a safe way to attach my external drive to his PC?

or

if I ask him to reformat his flashdrive on his PC, will it be virus clean?

or

would it be safe for me to reformat his possibly infected flashdrive on my PC?

I would love to share my music but I want to be extra cautious.

Thanks

[dave_boo]

I have some music on my external drive that an acquaintance would like to get.

I am concerned about attaching my drive to his PC.

He also has a 4G flash drive that I can transfer a small number files.

"If" his PC was infected with viruses, trojans or worms,

is there a safe way to attach my external drive to his PC?

Safest way would be to burn it to cd......

Or you could go ahead and make sure the folders and files are all read only.

or

if I ask him to reformat his flashdrive on his PC, will it be virus clean?

Wouldn't trust it; but then again I don't trust Windows.

or

would it be safe for me to reformat his possibly infected flashdrive on my PC?

Windows has the nifty little auto-play; you might want to (if you're extremely paranoid) reboot into safe mode and format it there or disable auto-play.

I would love to share my music but I want to be extra cautious.

If you truly want to be extra cautious and he sincerely wants the files, have him buy you some CD-Rs to burn them to.

Thanks

[Guest Reimar]

I have some music on my external drive that an acquaintance would like to get.

I am concerned about attaching my drive to his PC.

He also has a 4G flash drive that I can transfer a small number files.

"If" his PC was infected with viruses, trojans or worms,

is there a safe way to attach my external drive to his PC?

Safest way would be to burn it to cd......

Or you could go ahead and make sure the folders and files are all read only.

or

if I ask him to reformat his flashdrive on his PC, will it be virus clean?

Wouldn't trust it; but then again I don't trust Windows.

or

would it be safe for me to reformat his possibly infected flashdrive on my PC?

Windows has the nifty little auto-play; you might want to (if you're extremely paranoid) reboot into safe mode and format it there or disable auto-play.

I would love to share my music but I want to be extra cautious.

If you truly want to be extra cautious and he sincerely wants the files, have him buy you some CD-Rs to burn them to.

Thanks

I would just go with the last as dave suggest. Maybe use DVD-R's if the size is big. Cost of an DVD-R starts by about THB 10.00

Cheers.

[vagabond48]

Thanks.

[garyh]

If your mate wants it so bad he will pay for the disks