Timeline for How to detect malware on an HDD from scratch
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| Dec 3, 2023 at 13:03 | history | edited | Josef | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 22, 2018 at 12:10 | comment | added | Josef | @LancePollard there can be any amount of malicious code that you can manually run. In the simplest case a executable file that does malicious things if you double click on it in the GUI. But there could also be malicious code in sectors 121232-121242 on the drive which are marked unused in the filesystem and if you copy that and execute it, it does harmful things. The point is nothing there should happen automatically and you have to check every piece of executable code before you execute it. | |
| Nov 22, 2018 at 12:02 | comment | added | Lance Pollard | Excellent, just what I was looking for thank you. Not sure what you mean by the last line "Of course, there still could be malicious code that doesn't run automatically." | |
| Nov 22, 2018 at 11:58 | vote | accept | Lance Pollard | ||
| Nov 22, 2018 at 11:26 | history | answered | Josef | CC BY-SA 4.0 |