When saving copies of DVD Video and Program DVD/CDs on big hard-disc, I was wondering if they were better protected from
virus/other malware, if saved as a disk single ISO file, rather then in usual folder/file form.
VLC can as easily play DVD films saved on hdd as an iso, so I thought maybe an advantage to store them that way.
Having little knowledge of file types virus/other malware can infect, I don't know if .WMA, .MP3, .AVI & other film media can
be infected.
Can anyone throw any light on this ?
Years back, there were seasonal reviews of the best types of freeware protection of systems using WinXP.
I used just 2 types of protection: AVGfree, and Spybot SD for my WinXP laptop. I always suspected the protection wasn't
enough, due to a few small odd behaviours: One being, when using Windows Explorer to Create a 'New Folder' - the default name was often not 'New Folder', but name of a species of bird, like 'chicken', cuckoo, partridge - this behaviour replicated onto a new system hdd after old one failed, so I assume the cause came from infected data or program saved on a backup drive. I would like to remove this infection but AVG & Spybot report no problems.
Can anyone point me to some websites that recommend the best mix of freeware protection for Windows7 systems ?