[angel_alchemist]

I'm using avira and I just backed-up my system. I plan to format my hard drive and before restoring it, I'd like to scan the backup file (.bkf) just to make sure that my pc's really really clean. Will it be able to detect if the backup file has viruses?

In the same sense, how about spyware, will antispyware tools detect spyware inside a backup file?

thanks

[MikeSwim07]

I'm not sure if this will work but you would have the scanner scan the .bkf file and maybe it could. Even If It could detect I'm not sure if it would remove it because It would be already a compressed version. I would have tried to remove malware before you backed up your system.