re: #55 Man, DangerMan

not as such - just idly speculating as we always do

the way it was written:
plugged into “his computer” and “stop the analysis to halt any further corruption of his computer”
and no mention of any sort of ‘we knew what we were doing and had adequate precautions in place’

and the fact that this is a story at all

Not an IT guy here, but it seems to me that if you want to figure out what’s on a thumb drive, because you think it might be Bad Shit, you have computers configured for just that. Airgapped, sandboxed, no wi-fi card, no ethernet ports, do it all inside a Faraday Cage. You’d plug it into them and watch what happens. You don’t say, “Gee, what happens to my computer if I plug this in?”