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really thank you for the exhaustive explanation, really, I don' t have a wide knowledge about the security world and you helped me to better understand some concepts I didn' t have clear in my mind. Thanks !

hi, the question I've is the one in the post title, so if I've a pen disk that has been connected to an infected pc, maybe infected by a rootkit, does a disk formatting completely clean the usb drive or not ? If not what should I do for being sure the pen drive is clean?

thanks a lot !!

hi, didn't find the really correct place for posting this question, hope this is an acceptable one. As said in the title i'd like to know if a virus/malware or infected file can damage other files if it is copied it from a path to another. The question has born while making a backup of some files, 30-40GB, but between this there can be some malicious one, since they are a lot and they has not been checked by long time. Copying a virus can make it execute his code or not ? I think no, but do you say ? thanks for reading