You should borrow it from your bud and have a looksee at what files are on it...
Likely a bunch of freeware tools readily available along with a boot time scanner.
Thats a good idea.
Gonna hit him up next time I see him to see if he is willing to let me check it out. Then run it on a system I dont care about as for just like Cameron stated, if it can take updates, I bet it could have a tag along brought to the next computer.
Like 22 years ago I got hit with a virus and i didnt know I had a virus at first. My floppy disk wasnt reading correctly and when I did a DIR it showed unicode in the filenames and file sizes that exceeded the 1.44MB capacity of the disk. I popped that disk out and popped in another disk and ran DIR and saw this same unicode like mix and was able to make out some of the file names but once again the sizes were showing wrong.
I thought the floppy drive was messed and so I swapped out the floppy drive, popped in another disk and once again same issue.
Now I then spread the fire not knowing I had a virus. I popped the disk that read wrong into a what was a clean system and infected that. Ran DIR and had the same issue as the other computer. Ok set these floppys to the side, grab another floppy that wasnt inserted into the first computer and insert it to the 2nd computer and it had the same issue as the other system.
I then realized OH CRAP. And got an antivirus. Ran antivirus and the virus was caught on both systems. Ran the disks that were infected and cleaned them up but there was data loss. I then took my stacks of floppies and ran them one by one through the virus scanner and the Wolfenstein 3D that I got from a friend had the virus on it and thats how I got nailed before the internet when I was sharing floppy disks with friends and games etc.
When CD Burners became available, I was SOOO Happy to have Read-Only media. As long as that CD wasnt burned with a virus on it, it was immune from spreading infection to other systems. I then took my almost 200 floppies and copied all their data to hard drive and then burned all that data to a single 650MB CD-R which was so awesome to have 1 CD with my data from 1987 to 1999 when i got my CD Burner. I then drilled holes through stacks of floppies and threw away a trash bag full of them and kept about 30 of them which were DOS, Windows 3.11, and some games, as well as 5 blanks in case I needed to do a BIOS flash via Floppy Disk etc. These days I only have a USB floppy drive and havent used it in about 2 years, and a single container of 1.44MB floppies that are likely about 16 years old or older.