[WTA] Virus Infection from another Notebook

[sle3pingz]

guys , sorry for a weird question,

i want ask , when i lend my friends HDD External , lookslike his notebook have virus, then i ask him to format then safely remove, if like that , that virus will infect the HDD External after format ? and will infect too clean notebook if i plug-in to clean notebook? his Antivirus is Free Avast , my Anti virus is Kaspersky 2012 Licensed ~ Thanks ...

 

[sle3pingz]

lookslike he have many type , even after he format i afraid that virus will infect the HDD External again , if wanna format at my clean notebook , i afraid will infect my clean notebook before format , and after format the virus from my clean notebook will infect the HDD External again ...

 

[Golden]

Hi,

I'm confused about your problem - very few malware can survive a format of a hard disk. What malware exactly are you having problems with?

Regards,
Golden