Hey everyone, could use some advice

[Ratbear]

My friends computer recently got a trojan on it...hes going to pay me to clear it out...And seeing as how ive seen this done before i was wondering if i did this would there be any chance of compromising my hard drive in the process...basically what im going to be doing is Taking his HDD and hooking it up as a slave on my comp, and then running all the proper programs to clean up his HDD, so my question is...Will my computer be safe during this process IE:is it possible for his trojan to jump over to my HDD as well as any other viruses he has on his HDD...

Thanks for the help,

Charles

PS:I know this is probably a noob question but, better safe then sorry...

 

[Gary Graefen]

If you have a secure viral scanner in place your system should be fine-Ive done this many times.

 

[Ratbear]

If you have a secure viral scanner in place your system should be fine-Ive done this many times.

Now by viral scanner you mean virus scanner right? sorry for the horribly noobish questions...but it took me three months before i could build my new system...due to getting sold nothing but bunk parts from random computer places...so yeah you mean virus scanner?

 

[~mr mixx~]

He means if you have a good anti-virus program like MCAFEE or NORTON....

 

[Ratbear]

He means if you have a good anti-virus program like MCAFEE or NORTON....

I imagine NOD32 would cover it?

 

[~mr mixx~]

yeah, what ever he prefers, there are lot's of anti-virus program's out there....i was just giving an example.

 

[FuRgy]

Hehe...How much is he paying you...Might try it sometime, but not to my mates, just people i hate....which gives me another idea....
could go put a virus on their computer and then get them to pay me to remove it!