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First- no such thing as “no risk”. The USB separation doesn’t matter. Once loaded into memory and running you have many ways in which a dangerous program can i

First- no such thing as “no risk”. The USB separation doesn’t matter. Once loaded into memory and running you have many ways in which a dangerous program can interact with the machine. The general way to handle this type of need is to use an ephemeral virtual machine so you can just nuke it at the end. Otherwise, plan to reimage your computer.

_0ffh 5y ago
> Otherwise, plan to reimage your computer. You might also want to re-flash the BIOS while you're at it.
mikewarot 5y ago
>First- no such thing as “no risk”. There used to be, in the days of MS-DOS and floppy disk based PCs.
- giantg2 5y ago
  How so? They still had viruses on floppies.
  - mikewarot 5y ago
    They did, but those mostly hid as macros inside of Microsoft Word documents. Easy enough to deal with.