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Insulated (secure) file copy suggestions
Hi All,
The past few weeks my netbook has started locking up, needing the battery removed to get it started again. It most often happens in Firefox when writing to the HHD, but not always.
I have cloned the HDD to a new Seagate and installed that and the problem continues, so it is not the HDD. I have all current updates for everything here.
So, I am thinking it might be one of two things. I have picked up a Virus/Trojan/Worm or it is a hardware fault.
I am thinking of buying a new netbook and give up on this one. If I do that, and it is a Virus/Trojan/Worm, there is a good risk of transferring it over to the new netbook when I copy a bunch of data files from my back up USB HDD.
Any thoughts on how I can copy stuff to the new netbook without risk of bringing malicious stuff with them?
I am thinking maybe copy the files to a Cloud Account then copy from there back to the new netbook. The thinking there is that unless the actual files contain the Virus etc, any other sectors etc on the backup HDD that may contain the Virus code will not be transferred.
Thanks for any and all practical suggestions.