If you download a song to a jump drive, can a virus also spread to the same computer it's hooked into?
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i was wondering if you downloaded a song from the internet onto a jump drive, and it had a virus on it, would the virus spread to the computer you downloaded the song from? cause i wanted to download songs onto the jump drive from my mom's computer and put them on my old computer because it doesn't have internet connection, but i'm afraid that if i download a virus, it will spread to her computer. is it just that i have to take the jump drive out right when im done with it? please dont just give me any wrong answers because i cannot get one virus on my mom's computer, i can't even download anything on it, do you see why i want to know the answer to this question? so please know what you are talking about. thank you
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Answer:
First off, if you say you can't download anything on your mom's computer, what makes you think you can save the download directly to your jump drive? It won't make a difference wherever you download a file. Second, it's not the song that gets you infected but the website that you connect to. So unless you are 100% sure that the site is safe, you shouldn't try going to that site. Otherwise, you'll mess up your mom's computer. Why don't you just ask your mom to get a router so you can share the internet connection in the house? This way, you don't need to bother her computer.
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Yes, it can. When the virus is activated, it can spread to the computer the USB drive is connected to. Therefore always make sure that your operating system and software is up to date and that you have a proper, up to date anti-virus solution installed on every computer. Only download files from reliable sources to prevent the possibility of a virus infection. An anti-virus solution is not the ultimate solution. Compare your computer to a house and the anti-virus solution to an alarm. If you leave your front door wide open (not update your operating system and software), what use is your alarm then? Or what if you invite a burglar into your house yourself (download files from an unreliable source), your alarm will not go off straight then and might not go off at all.
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