Virus on driver CD-ROM for external hard drive?

I decided to use a new external hard drive and when I initially plugged it in my computer recognized that something had been plugged in but it didn't show up right away under My Computer.

I inserted the little driver CD that came with it (I wasn't sure if I needed to or not) and opened that and when I did so my Virus Scan (Norton) popped up saying that there was a file with a trojan in a folder called Win98 on the driver CD-ROM and that the Action Taken was "Access to File Denied" (something along those lines). I tried to remove the virus and when I removed the CD-ROM from the CD-drive Norton said that the virus had been removed. So, apparently it is on the driver CD. The external drive itself seems fine. A virus scan indicates that the virus was only on the CD.

I'm wondering, is the external hard drive still safe to use? I have it plugged in now. When I put the driver CD in I didn't do anything due to the virus on the CD. With other flash memory sticks or external hard drives, I just plug them into the computer and they are functional and nothing needs to be installed and it seems that this hard drive is functional. A virus scan doesn't turn up anything unless the driver CD-ROM is in the computer. I'm a little unnerved by the fact that the brand new driver CD apparently had a trojan on it. Are there any precautions I need to take?

Thanks in advance.

 

This is definitely one of the stranger things I've read. What brand external HDD is it? I would be doubtful that an OEM driver CD-ROM would have anything really malicious on it, unless it's an AOL disk, haha.

 

It'a a Kaser external drive. I'd never heard of the company till now. It was strange to me as well and I'm not really sure what to do with it now and whether or not the external drive is still okay to use.