Is my iphone hacked/infected?

Connected the iphone4 to the laptop, opened the internal storage to copy my images, and found - for the first time - 2 files named "Local Disk" 323bytes and 1.24kb with the drive icon, can't open them and it seems like a virus. is my iphone infected? hacked? or is it my laptop? and if it's my laptop would it affect my iphone? cause those 2 files are on the internal storage of the iphone.

Why does it "seem like a virus"?
Not every unexplained thing in technology is automatically a virus.
These files are normal and nothing to worry about. They will disappear when you remove the images from the phone. Do not attempt to delete things you don't understand the purpose of.

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