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Old 10-30-2011, 12:59 PM
 
Location: Coastal Mid-Atlantic
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I have an old floppy I would like to use on my new computer. My old one had viruses on it till it died. I have files on this old floppy I would like to see. How do you scan it to see if there is a virus on it before I open the files on it? Thanks.
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Old 10-30-2011, 01:02 PM
 
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You should be able to right click on it in My Computer and choose "scan for viruses" or something similar. It really depends on your antivirus software.
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Old 10-30-2011, 01:25 PM
 
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If that doesn't work your AV software (and Malwarebytres) should have a place where you can tell it to scan the disk.
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