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Help me back up a virus infected CD (!)

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f0dder:
Dunno if CIH is the most brutal virus, but some versions did indeed erase your flash-bios - only works on Win9x afaik, though. And as for "erase your harddisk directly", it doesn't get more direct than what anybody with normal administrative privileges can do :)

Nod5:
In addition to the suggestion Nosh made (about a virtualization software) it is a good idea to have a "lab computer" for testing these kinds of things in isolation from the regular computer. With a pretty simple to make SATA power switch we can turn one computer into two. See this: http://lifehacker.com/5160614/build-your-own-sata-switch . This is of course a bit overkill for the case at hand but worth mentioning anyway.

scancode:
What I've done in a couple cases is using TeraCopy to copy the CD to the HDD, while leaving the AV enabled. You might get a lot of popups, but the non-infected files will be copied :)

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