On Tuesday 25 October 2005 09:45 am, Ka Winter wrote:
> > This sounds a little [[more like very] dangerous to
> > me.
> >
> > If one yanks the HD and then wants to do data
> > recovery one must place said HD
> > in a computer which given how this discussion is
> > going would mostlikely be a
> > MS box. Then if said HD had a virus on it you have
> > just infected the second
> > box which will then most likely do exactly what the
> > first box is doing.
>
> Typically, no, this will not infect the second box.
> When the infected harddrive is only used temporarily
> as a second drive to pull data off of, none of its
> programs, services, registry or background services
> are loading or running. But you are right, I agree
> completely that using knoppix to boot the pc is one of
> the best ways of getting to the data harmlessly.
>
> Cassandra
>
For MS systems if one can transfer a virus by an email attachment one
definitely has the potential of transfering a virus by connecting a second HD
which contains a virus.
SCOL
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