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Hi,
Please help with getting rid of virus’s transferred by USB stick…..
I have worked in multiple different electronics companies. In each of them , I “took work home” by copying files from my work PC onto various USB sticks, then connecting the USB stick into my home laptop.
It became blatantly obvious that the companies had made their PC’s put spy software (and possibly other virus’s) onto these USB sticks. It was obvious because often IT staff were able to tell me eg what youtube songs, etc , I had listened to the night before.
I have even had staff at work accurately repeating eg conversations that i have had with my partner the evening before...so they somehow collect the audio and transmit it back to themselves.
Recently my laptops have started to run very very slowly, and I believe that this is due to virus’s that I have inadvertently transferred from my work PC to my home laptop via the USB sticks, in this way. (ie , the companys somehow make their PC’s put virus’s on any workers’ USB sticks connected to them)
Do you know how I can “clean” these virus’s off these USB sticks?
And do you know how I can “clean” these virus’s off my laptop?
(do I have to reset windows?)
(I guess that these companies do this because they suspect that workers might be trying to steel the company's IP, but i was not trying to do this. I guess the companys inject these virus's because ultimately, they want to destroy the home laptop, as in their minds, it may contain their IP, due to it possibly being transferred by USB stick)
(I have Norton anti-virus, but it obviously hasn’t stopped these virus’s.)
Please help with getting rid of virus’s transferred by USB stick…..
I have worked in multiple different electronics companies. In each of them , I “took work home” by copying files from my work PC onto various USB sticks, then connecting the USB stick into my home laptop.
It became blatantly obvious that the companies had made their PC’s put spy software (and possibly other virus’s) onto these USB sticks. It was obvious because often IT staff were able to tell me eg what youtube songs, etc , I had listened to the night before.
I have even had staff at work accurately repeating eg conversations that i have had with my partner the evening before...so they somehow collect the audio and transmit it back to themselves.
Recently my laptops have started to run very very slowly, and I believe that this is due to virus’s that I have inadvertently transferred from my work PC to my home laptop via the USB sticks, in this way. (ie , the companys somehow make their PC’s put virus’s on any workers’ USB sticks connected to them)
Do you know how I can “clean” these virus’s off these USB sticks?
And do you know how I can “clean” these virus’s off my laptop?
(do I have to reset windows?)
(I guess that these companies do this because they suspect that workers might be trying to steel the company's IP, but i was not trying to do this. I guess the companys inject these virus's because ultimately, they want to destroy the home laptop, as in their minds, it may contain their IP, due to it possibly being transferred by USB stick)
(I have Norton anti-virus, but it obviously hasn’t stopped these virus’s.)
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