As the title suggests, will the phone get infected if I download or upload files via Airdroid on an infected computer? (Be it virus or Malware)
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Is the Airdroid app safe to use on an infected computer?
- Thread starter cookiefai
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Viruses still need the appropriate environment to work, be it x86/x64, ARM, etc, so there should be no problem...
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As said above 
... but you'd be careful when connecting your phone and upload to another computer because there might computer virus/trojan files on your phone's storage/SD card.
... but you'd be careful when connecting your phone and upload to another computer because there might computer virus/trojan files on your phone's storage/SD card.
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Sorry I'm not sure what you meant by "environment". Can I ask you to explain what it is?
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Software environment.
Usually that means operating system, though there have been examples of more limited self-propagating code that could spread cross-platform if the same app was used (e.g. MS Office macro "viruses", if anyone remembers those - didn't affect the OS but could infect your Word documents if you let it just run any macros it found in a doc).
Usually that means operating system, though there have been examples of more limited self-propagating code that could spread cross-platform if the same app was used (e.g. MS Office macro "viruses", if anyone remembers those - didn't affect the OS but could infect your Word documents if you let it just run any macros it found in a doc).
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