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I have a Acer laptop before and I believe it was infect once. The viruses went away after about a month. Now I have all the files from that PC on a Seagate 1TB external hard drive. I have connected to my MBP a few time but now I am worried that those files might still be infected and that it will damaged my MBP. 

1. How to find out if those files are infected and, 

2. Will those files infect my MBP's performance, security, software and system. 

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