How to scan/print/sign a document without downloading it to computer?

Hey all. Got an issue and like feedback. I have a laptop where i do most things on it except stream things on it anymore due to worrying about viruses/malware etc. I have to print a few documents and then fill the form out and then upload it to the site. So i don't have to email those documents to them via email.


What i did was from my main email account, send the documents i need to print out to a secondary email for this sole purpose. Thus if anything happens to this secondary email such as hack etc, i do not care. I want it so i could print out some documents without logging into my primary email on another computer. At the moment, i have an old desktop computer to use. I also have a printer as well. The thing though is this desktop computer, i had clean reinstall it but issue is im not sure if it has virus or not because i didn't clean reinstall it properly. So what i did here was log into that secondary email and then printed out the documents. I then had to fill out the information in a few of these documents. Then i scanned them on the desktop computer and its saved there.


Now what i need to do is upload these documents on a site as that is how i send it to the other person. What is the best way to do this? One way i thought was send these attachments to my primary email. But if i do this, i have to open the attachments and save them to my computer Then i go to that site and then upload it. My issue is if my desktop computer possibly have virus, couldn't those attachments that i open and save on my laptop possibly get a virus? Or that is not possible.


The other thing i thought would be just log into that site i need to upload my attachments on and then upload it from the desktop computer. That way, i never have to download any attachment on my main computer.


Thoughts on what is best option here?

The one issue i thought about with the 2nd option would be if my desktop is infected with virus/malware, then isn't logging into that site that i need to upload the attachment/documents on bad because my login for that site is an email? Of course the password isn't the same as my email one but it would be the password for that site. But if i type my email in an infected computer, could a hacker try to hack that email since i typed it in? Again im not logging into that email on the desktop computer with my username and password, but that site that i log into, its the email i primary use. Thus i wonder if it has malware, could i pose a danger to my email account just by typing that email as a login for something else.

I like to mention thats its a gmail account for both emails. The other thing i thought was would it be more safe if i click on add to my drive instead of downloading it? On gmail if you preview the attachment, does it pose the same risk as downloading the file?


Is there a way to check to see if the attachment on gmail has a virus before downloading it? Again, im sending the attachment from the desktop with the secondary email... to my primary email where i log in with my main laptop. Im concerned if my desktop has a virus/trojan and that could make those attachments that i send infect my primary laptop.

 

I think your paranoia is a bit unhealthy...

Just follow whatever instructions the website provided.

 

You wouldn't have to worry about viruses and malware if you'd stop visiting shady websites (which you yourself have admitted to doing). I do believe I've already brought this to your attention.

 

You're paranoid over nothing tbh

If either of your systems are infected with viruses/malware you would already know about it. You could easily do a scan with Malwarebytes on your systems just to make sure and besides if you really stopped visiting shady sites as you said then you'll have nothing to worry about.