can viruses jump?????

[doddsy]

hullo

two sata hard drives...........one with xp 64-bit beta (via 64 bit raid controller installed) one with xp home.

i can view the contents of both drives from either hdd and can drag and drop files from either hdd to the other.

so.............aside from the possibility of my dragging across an infection iwas wondering..........before i take xp 64 online........if this disk picked up something nasty on the net could it "jump" to my other drive??

thanx

doddsy

[John Prophet]

viruses are pretty crafty, lol...seems the possibility exists that they could go from one drive to another

[DVNT1]

yes, it could infect files on the other drive or partition. Just depends on how the virus is written

[doddsy]

thanks guys

i have nis 2003 fully up to date on xp home, but when i tried to install it on xp 64 i got some errors.............xp-64 stays grounded until it can be protected...........

thanks again

doddsy