Computer Virus Transfer via CD BackUp?

[snowfish]

Can Virus's be transfer from a CD back up?

Our home computer is so full of crap it ain't funny. To the point that I think the Virus's are eating my McAfee & SpyBot programs! Even another alleged AV/SpyWare shortcut showed up telling me that I have 300+ threats! And then wanted $70 to get rid of them! I just spent under $100 renewing the McAfee & SpyBot. Now this. Great!

My plan is to get the old one running good enough to create some CD back ups of files, pics, etc, and transfer to a New Computer. If even that's possible at this point. Good grief.

Will all of ugly little jimmies be transferred to the CD's, and then run wild in my new computer?

 

[lewisb13]

You bet they can! Most viruses now adays are executed from the registry, and they are definately backup-able. If you are having trouble...geekstogo.com and once you get done reading all the amazing nerds over on that forum, download malwarebytes...

 

[lofsfire]

Yes and No, it all depends how you back stuff up.

Yes they can be transferred by CD or any other media. But if you take, lets say all you picture files then and put them on an external/ jump drive then check them with a program like McAfee & SpyBot it should check and clean any infected files. Most likely files such as picture will not be infected. If you burn a CD or DVD to move your files when you run McAfee & SpyBot you will not be able to clean the files if there is a problem, because of the type of media, that is why I suggested an external or jump drive.

Just make sure when you run McAfee & SpyBot you change the location of the drive you are scanning to wherever your files are.

Malwarebytes is a very good program.

 

[dcsnomo]

OK, first, ya gotta get rid of the pop ups telling you about the "300 plus threats" as these are scams trying to get your credit card number.

Viruses and spyware are different and need to be dealt with differently

Step 1- Clean out browsing history, cookies, temps, etc using that function on your browser
Step 2-make sure McAfee is updated, then do a FULL system scan.
Step 3- Do a full Spybot scan. While this is good, spybot tends to miss stuff.
Step 4- Go to www.downloads.com and download the free version of Adaware from Lavasoft. Read the download screens carefully as there are ads and stuff in there that can be misleading. Do the free download
Run Ad aware often
Step 5- Run microsoft Disk Cleanup
Step 6 Run Microsoft disk defrag

If above doesn't help then you need to hire a geek

AFTER you fix it, then do the backup cds IMHO. Others may disagree and I will yield to them, but I believe garbage in, garbage out. First problem is to fix the pc

 

[snowfish]

Thanks All. I'll give it a shot but this may be geek material. Will keep you posted. Cheers.