Removing files from Banker FS infected hard drive

rsrik · Mar 1, 2009

I have a hard drive which has been infected by the Banker FS Trojan.
I had, fortunately, cleaned up most of the data on it since I obtained a new one. I simply want to reformat, reinstall the OS on the infective hard drive and move on. But I have about one zip file that I would like to retain from it. My question is - is spyware smart enough to infect my zip drive if I plug it in to retrieve the solitary file? Or should I be OK? I don't know about malware enough to know whether it can copy itself into a zip drive and consequently infect other computers.
Your kind advise is sought... Thanks

TimW · Mar 3, 2009

Yes, malware can infect your zip drive, so it would be best to copy the zip file to a cd and then scan the cd for malware before copying it back.

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Removing files from Banker FS infected hard drive

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