What Is The Safest Way Of Transferring Files From One Computer To Another?
I always have to plug in my USB thumb drive into many people’s computer to get important files. The sad thing these days is that many computers have viruses, but I need the files from the infected computer. USB thumb drives sucks, viruses always enter it. Antiviruses soft wares do not work properly all the time. Are there any other safer methods to transfer files or get files?
- Email?
- CDs?
- Diskettes?
Or we will always get viruses, no matter what method we use to transfer files from an infected computer?
You should save the files online to a Microsoft Office Live Workspace. It’s like a virtual thumbdrive that lets you store and access your files from any computer, plus your files have the benefit of virus protection from Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint, and they can only be accessed with a Windows Live ID and password.
Each Workspace is free and comes with 5GB of storage space, which is plenty.
Jeff
MSFT Office Live Outreach
http://www.sizlopedia.com/2008/03/18/dis… shows one way to disable autorun on USB drives. Conflicker, ugh!
That disables it most of the way, but there’s a glitch in that double-clicking on the drive in Windows Explorer will still load the file. The fix I’ll post in a moment. I have to go look it up.
::EDIT:: OK go to http://blogs.computerworld.com/the_best_…
The blog has a way that works 100%.
Call a computer tech, maybe bring it to a repair place, they may have a way to do it safely.
the best way is to remove viruses from the infected pc by making them stand alone and then copying file frile the best way you know