Can a virus infect an ISO file?

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Published on 2009-08-29T13:22:27Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 1:23 UTC
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I feel that it's going to be very difficult for a virus to infect an ISO file. What's your experience? Have you seen it happening ever? Is it not nearly unlikely?

I ask because I've just found that my computer is infected and I wish to salvage as much stuff as possible. So I was wondering if I could keep my ISO files.

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