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Question about Viruses and Music

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angstsoldat

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I got a question here.. I am going to reformat when I get my new pieces in a couple months, and I downloaded music from the internet and put it all on CDs. so Im going to rip the music back onto my wiped harddrive afterwards, and was wondering.. Is there still viruses and stuff in the music if it comes off a burned CD? (like if there were any trojans, worms, etc from when I first downloaded it and put it on the CD would it still be there.) and also, if I ripped it to a Limited Account would the viruses/worms/etc be easy to terminate or would the ripped files be on my Administrator account as well?

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thinking about it the problem is that its a win/lose situation no matter which way you look at it.. hmm spend 15$ on a CD that has 2 good songs or spend nothing on just the songs you like.
 
Well, I doubt the file itself would get infected. Just make sure the file sizes match up. =/

But regardless, I doubt any trojan/vrius you got from some random location thought you were important enough to infect like that, or you'd have noticed already.
 
It would be rare that a mp3 file is actualy infected with something the many .exe music files people seem to download on the other hand..... but uh filesharing is the worlds greatest way to spread viruses, because files literally multiple as they go from computer to computer.and it spreads like butter.
 
Actually I did/or do have some viruses and crap.. not major ones, just your everyday trojans, and these 2 annoying programs called xps2.exe and run.exe . Sense I got AntiVir and avast i am not sure if they completely cleaned those 2 out or not. I havent ran into them sense then though. I also had iexplorer.exe or whatnot, but same story for that.
 
Originally posted by: angstsoldat
thinking about it the problem is that its a win/lose situation no matter which way you look at it.. hmm spend 15$ on a CD that has 2 good songs or spend nothing on just the songs you like.
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Or you could download the two good songs for $1.98.
 
Originally posted by: UsandThem
Originally posted by: angstsoldat
thinking about it the problem is that its a win/lose situation no matter which way you look at it.. hmm spend 15$ on a CD that has 2 good songs or spend nothing on just the songs you like.
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Or you could download the two good songs for $1.98.
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Lol.

 
Plain old MP3's can not be infected by viruses, which is not to say that they couldn't be damaged, which is something I'm sure the RIAA would like to write a virus to do, despite that it would be illegal for them to screw with my legally ripped MP3s!

Anyway, another issue is that if you burned the music to CDs that are playable in any CD player, the MP3s were uncompressed. Ripping them again to MP3 throws away data a second time, since MP3 is a lossy compression format - read about it on google if you don't understand this. Anyway, buy the CDs legally and you wouldn't be having these issues. 😉

(I still can't see the point in paying for crappy lossily compressed DRM-shackled music on the internet, though).
 
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