Timeline for Is it safe to plug my own USB drive into unknown pc?
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| Jun 19, 2019 at 9:01 | vote | accept | Jakub Mosakowski | ||
| Jun 19, 2019 at 8:57 | history | edited | Jakub Mosakowski | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
I added explanation which one of the users required.
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| Jun 18, 2019 at 19:43 | comment | added | Makyen | You are describing exactly the process of how to infect your home machine from some other infected machine. Many/most PCs are set up such that they will automatically read data from USB drives which are plugged in, which may/will result in your PC becoming infected. While it's possible to scrub the USB drive, doing so in a way that does not result in the possibility of becoming infected is non-trivial for most users. | |
| Jun 18, 2019 at 19:28 | answer | added | user211258 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 18, 2019 at 18:59 | answer | added | dwizum | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 18, 2019 at 18:45 | answer | added | S0AndS0 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 18, 2019 at 18:43 | comment | added | Jakub Mosakowski | My point exactly. Is it something I can do to prevent that? I can erase drive before unplugging it from pc in copy point but I guess it could be infected afterward nevertheless. | |
| Jun 18, 2019 at 18:42 | answer | added | Ted | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 18, 2019 at 18:39 | comment | added | dwizum | What steps do you take to ensure you can do #4 without the disk first infecting the PC you're using to format it? | |
| Jun 18, 2019 at 18:20 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jun 18, 2019 at 18:17 | history | asked | Jakub Mosakowski | CC BY-SA 4.0 |