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lanux128:
a friend has an old cd from which he intended to retrieve some stuff but unfortunately his anti-virus scanner's spider sense was working and it displayed this error message (see pic). i told him to turn off his anti-virus temporarily and get his stuff, later he can run a full scan on his PC. at the same time, i'm thinking how can he back up this CD minus the infected file(s)? hopefully fellow DC'ers could come up with some solutions.. :)

mouser:
as you say the best thing to do would be to
1) scan the cd with the antivirus tool and make note of all infected files.
2) *VERY* CAREFULLY: disable the antivirus program and COPY the non-infected files from cd to hard disk folder
3) re-enable the antivirus and scan copied files to double check

You *REALLY* have to be super careful with step 2 -- if you accidentally double clicked on one of the infected files while you were copying them with the antivirus off and launched it, you could infect your pc.

Target:
I assume that the advisory you received is just that, an advisory, ie a 'virus' was found in one of the files on the CD, rather than in  running process...

I'm no expert, but it seems to me you shouldn't really need to disable your AV to do this

you should be able to copy ALL the files without problem, just so long as you don't run anything

once you've got everything in a (quarantine) folder, rescan it and you should expect your AV software will do it's thing and delete/clean/whatever any nasties that may be lurking (it may well be worthwhile checking with a couple of alternative scanners though, just to be sure)

mouser:
Target may be right, as long as you avoid trying to copy those bad files your antivirus should let you copy the good ones.

nosh:
Though not really needed in this case, I think a virtual machine is a must-have these days for numerous reasons, MS Virtual PC is free, fast and supports hardware virtualization.

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