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Answer» My girl friend took the memory card out of her camera, PUT it in a card reader, and uploaded pictures to a computer. Come to find out the computer had a viruse, can her memory card catch that viruse by just uploading the pictures. Yes. Memory cards are like flash drives and can become infected. Below is a tool to cleanup flash drives, memory cards, cell phones etc.
Flash Drive Cleanup
Download Flash Disinfector by sUBs and save it to your Desktop.
- Double-click Flash_Disinfector.exe to run it.
- Your desktop and icons may disappear. This is normal.
- It will do a cleanup of removable storage devices, and write a protected Autorun.inf file to help prevent re-infection.
- Follow any prompts that may appear.
- The utility may ask you to insert your flash drive and/or other removable drives INCLUDING your mobile phone. Please do so and allow the utility to clean up those drives as well.
- WAIT until it has FINISHED scanning and then exit the program.
- There will be no GUI INTERFACE or log file produced.
- Reboot your computer when done.
Note: Flash_Disinfector will create a hidden folder named autorun.inf in each partition and every USB drive plugged in when you ran it. Don't delete this folder...it will help protect your drives from future infection.
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