Can Pendrive be easily effected by virus in compare of USB hard drive ??  |
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|  hey friend .... Mostly all users uses pen drive for exchanging data with friends. So it is common that we got our pen-drive infected by virus. But is it true that USB hard disk has less chances for effected by virus. I don't know but some of my friend told me that pendrive means flash drive has more chances for getting virus in compare of USB hard disk.. I have USB hard disk and till now it never affected by virus.. so i am thinking that it is true... but still what you think about this ??
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1.  benny128 (2330)
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3 years ago
| |  pendrives same as dvd's or cd's are a storage device they won't be affected by a virus, they are only a means of storage.
Once a virus is then transferred onto a pc then that is when the virus will become active.
So yea all storage devices can store a virus but its not untill it goes onto your system itself that it becomes a problem,
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 padhiaranand (2112)
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3 years ago
| | ok.... thanks for the information... but tell me about comparison... FlashDrive (Pendrive) and USB Hard disk.. which is good for storage.. means who having less chances for affecting by virus. | | | |
| benny128 (2330)
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3 years ago
| | they are both the same a pendrive is just a smaller version of a hard drive, | | | |
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2.  cmdr001 (314)
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3 years ago
| |  Well, your friend is, and I'm afraid to say this: Dumb!
Not what I think, but fact, a pendrive gets infected just as easily a hardisk.
Doesn't matter if it's USB, Firewire, E-SATA, whatever, it's all the same. If you can write data into it, a virus can lodge itself on that unit.
Virus are small programs that lodge themselves in memory and either wait for you to run a program to contaminate it or are self-propagating ones that will try to infect any and all files that they can reach. If you don't have a drive write-protected, a virus will simply write itself into files there.
Taking that last point as a fact though, if you look at it from this perspective, pen drives would have -less- chance of becoming contaminated because you can hard-switch many pen drives to becoming write protected, something that no virus can overcome (But then again, you won't be able to save anything else on that pen either)
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| cmdr001 (314)
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3 years ago
| | There is absolutely nothing to get confused about.
You can write data into it, you can write virii in there too. I see your replies to other users and I can see how you're commenting how it's "Very different" and there's "Speed differences". You are indeed getting confused because that makes no difference whatsoever! I'm guessing your friend stuck that idea on your head as well?
It doesn't matter if it's a flash based drive or not. For the computer it's all the same, and it doesn't matter if you write at 1Mb/s or 50Mb/s, the virus is still going to get written.
There is nothing to discuss as the answer is simple: It's the same!
Don't think for a second otherwise.
Don't even doubt.
It's just so!
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3.  gohan2091 (378)
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3 years ago
| |  A pen drive can just as easily be infected by a virus as a USB hard drive. Both are hardware and both store data so yes, just as easily. It's like saying is a Ford car just as easily crashable as an Audi.... yep, both are cars and both can easily crash if the driver or other road users are careless.
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| padhiaranand (2112)
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3 years ago
| | hey friend... one is flash drive and other is hard drive... i know that there is too much difference between accessing the file in them... USB hard drive is much faster in compare of Pen drive.. but i am still confuse on virus. | | | |
| gohan2091 (378)
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3 years ago
| | Speed doesn't make a difference. If you plug either a USB hard drive or USB pen drive into your PC and that PC is infected, it's very possible that your PC will copy that virus to your USB device. Even if your PC is free from viruses, you can just as easily pick up a virus online.
Use virus protection, update it and you are as safe as you're ever going to be. Lots of free ones on the Internet, I use Avira for my PC. | | | |
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