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Yes, the virus could be destroyed, or at least "lost." The worst that will happen is that the virus will be marked as trash, but not deleted. In theory, another bit of malicious code could recover it, and reinfect you, but this is very unlikely. You could "shred" and format your drive to be sure it is destroyed, using something like Darik's Boot and Nuke (found at www.dban.org), but this is usually not needed.

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