My computer had some type of virus earlier today and I restored ot to Tuesday. Seems to work fine but now all my music, pics and favorites have disappeared. Thing is when I told it to save this site to favorites, it said it already existed. So where are they? Da#m people and their viruses. I checked recycle bin and they arent there. Any ideas anyone????Please.

 

I'd say that the virus is not gone and that is why your stuff is disappearing. You'll likely want to reformat your hard drive if possible in order to ensure that the virus is gone.

As for recovering your files, that may be tough. Are you getting any kind of windows or pop ups that are related to the virus? Look for anything on them, names, etc. Pop those into google and see what other people have said about the virus. Trust me, you are not the only person in the world that has had this virus...and therefore, someone likely knows something about it.

Good luck!

 

were the file there after the restore, and then disappeared?

a restore does not normally change user files, only system files and installed programs.

do you know what virus you had, if could have moved/deleted your missing files...also any Anti Virus could have deleted them if they were infected..

 

i concur, this is the only true way to remove a virus...unless it's moved to the BIOS.

 

Not sure what the virus was but all of a sudden I had screens coming up from my taskbar in the lower right saying my hard drive was corrupt and files missing I think. There were about 10 of them. I finally ended up restarting it and same thing. Then did safe mode and did a system restore to a couple days ago.

 

Man I to reformat this thing again but if necessary, I have the software.
Maybe tomorrow. I am almost finished with a full scan of Microsoft security essentials.

 

Good luck with the reformat, if it's xp you could be up and running in 45 minutes.

 

Thanks, I see you are attempting to give a damn, oh wait process failed like my laptop. LOL. It is XP but I cant remember if I borrowed it or not from a coworker. We will see how long this works. Maybe I will wake up and it will all be good. Ha.

 

LOL!

xp can easily be found on the internet, im pretty sure microsuck don't support xp anymore...so the risk level is fairly low (if you look find a corporate edition)

 

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