Re: Scanning from a CD

You wrote -
<<If you drop the HD in your PC, there are two risks:
- your PC may corrupt an at-risk HD (Autochk, SR/SVI, etc.)
- a surface exploit could infect your PC>>

Any action has its attendant risks. The trick is to keep to reduce the risk
and hope you don't get caught.

Could you please explain how my PC may corrupt another HD (which is
installed as a secondary master)?
Similarly, if my computer threat prevention is bank up-to-date, how can my
computer be infected - other than the ever present risk from the time lapse
between the risk being released to the wild and the update being installed)?

Thanks.

Bill Ridgeway
Computer Solutions


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