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The files I transfer are not infected, but can the infection spread on its own without my action? Network property is set to private and file sharing is turned on.

Or maybe a USB flash drive is better for migrating files between PC?

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    Depends on the infection. What malware are we talking about specifically? Edit your question instead of submitting a comment. How is this different from your other 3 questions?
    – Ramhound
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  • @Ramhound My other questions didn't ask about the risk of malware spreading through wifi local network. And I wouldn't know what malware because I don't even know whether there is malware.
    – IronCat
    Commented yesterday
  • Here is a nice article about some cases in which this can happen. Note also that your wifi router could be the point of infection.
    – 1NN
    Commented 13 hours ago
  • @1NN Thanks, I will read it.
    – IronCat
    Commented 6 hours ago

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Since at least 1971 there has been malware that uses both local and wider networks to spread to other computers. The Morris worm of 1988 was perhaps one of the earliest with any major notoriety.

So far as I know, all of these can spread without requiring an innocent person to transfer an infected file.

Of course none of the above have any relevance to Windows 10 or 11 but they all demonstrate that you should prepare for malware on one computer to use the local area network (LAN) to try to compromise other computers connected to the LAN.

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