A fried of mine has a notebook without a DVD writer and wants to borrow my external DVD/CD writer. Is it possible that the DVD writer gets a virus or malware etc. if my fried is using it and his notebook has a virus? The DVD writer is connected to the USB. I mean not the burned media but really the dvd writer itself.
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As the comment to your question said, basically no. Yes, a firmware can get malware, even BIOS can be attacked, but the chances that his computer has malware that infects your specific hardware is slim to none. Personally, I don't think you have anything to worry about.
Edit: Also, the use of optical media readers/writers has gone way down, and there aren't a whole lot of them. I know this sort of escapes the point of this question, but I doubt someone would invest time in writing malware for the firmware of something like that.
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