I have two external USB hard disks and always download to them but I always take the necessary precaution of having an AV running on my PC. You see, it does not matter where a virus, trojan or whatever lands in your PC because if it gets a chance to run it will infect all of your PC, not just the disk it lands on.

Just remember this, no matter where a piece of malware runs from it will put itself into your PCs memory and infect everything it comes in to contact with from there.


UK Bob