My personal computer was recently infected with at least one virus and some malware. I have a few Sandisk SD cards that I usually USE to back up files and transfer them to other computers. One card was used with the computer that was infected. If I reformatted the card, could I reasonably expect that it would be safe to use with the non-infected computers without infecting them with whatever my computer has? Could a virus still SOMEHOW hide on the card and escape being deleted?Have a look...

http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_remove_a_virus_from_a_memory_card.htmlThanks If I reformat the card with the computer that is not virus-infected, will the virus have a chance to get into the computer just by even plugging in the card reader into the USB port? Would it be effective to reformat the card on the virus-infected computer before using it with the non-virus-infected computer or would that not work out that way? I have no other way of getting the files I need onto the virused computer so I was downloading them onto the SD card on the non-virus-infected computer and then transferring them over VIA the card.

haus_kat

I'm going to defer your questions to someone with more experience as I'm not up to speed on SD cards.Without knowing which virus you have on the card I can't be sure it won't write back to a clean machine. What I would SUGGEST is to make sure your machine is up to date and has a good anti-virus program runing on it. Than go ahead and format the Sandisk. Don't try to remove files from it just format it. You should be ok to do this.

After you are done formatting it run a full scan with your anti-virus software.