My boyfriend has to does a lot of his work on his home computer but has to disable the virus protector when downloading some of his applications. Last week he got a virus and now his $2000 is in the shop. Would an external hard drive protect his computer? Say he were to download something to the external hard drive rather than the computer itself, would it still mess up the computer? I would think it would pass the computer and the virus wont become active until it is full downloaded onto the hard drive....saving lots of money. We've tried to change the virus protection but it wont let him download some of the software that he needs. I want to get him an external hard drive fr Christmas because that laptop of his is his life!
How does an external hard drive work?firewall
an external hard drive isn't going to make any difference. if a virus gets onto the external hard drive, it's not going to just sit there and do nothing. it's going to infect every single computer it gets plugged in to, including the one that downloaded the virus
How does an external hard drive work?husqvarna
The external harddrive isn't going to make much of a difference at all for protection against a virus. Data has to go from your internet connection, through the computer's memory and the data bus before going out the USB port or whatever you're using to connect to your external harddrive. It might help you get around some of the older less smart viruses, but odds are the nasty ones are still going to have a chance to implant themselves on your computer.
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