So here's the question: my father has Family Treemaker files on that USB that we really need to recover.
Because of the speed of the reinfection (none of the data files were opened after I copied them back on the the PC), I'm going to guess that the malware traveled on the USB, either in the folder structure or the firmware. (As a side question, can this USB be cleaned and safely used again?)
If the data files themselves are not infected, I thought about possibly copying them up to an...
Remove malware from data files on USB?
Because of the speed of the reinfection (none of the data files were opened after I copied them back on the the PC), I'm going to guess that the malware traveled on the USB, either in the folder structure or the firmware. (As a side question, can this USB be cleaned and safely used again?)
If the data files themselves are not infected, I thought about possibly copying them up to an...
Remove malware from data files on USB?