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Can a CD contain virus?

The CD media comes in two formats CDR and CDRW.

CDR can only be written into once. What you get from the CD is what you write into the CD. Hence, if the written programs contain viruses, the CD will contain the virus. A classic example of virus spreading through the CDs was CIH. A lot of driver CDs contained CIH and propagated through it.

CDRW can be used like Floppy media and hence chances of them containing viruses are equally high.