trend micro pc-cillin found a few viruses and quarantined them.I opened up my quarantine folder,and it was only giving me the option to delete them,but to clean them wasnt highlighted,so i deleted them.Now i have discovered that my wife has lost some of her important files.can they be restored?
2006-06-13 13:01:17 · 4 answers · asked by Ron~N 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
It is possible to recover these files with a free program called Free Undelete available at:
http://officerecovery.com/freeundelete/
But the files will come back exactly as they were before, virus and all. So pretty much you have to choose the less of 2 evils would you rather have the files back or would you rather have a virus on your computer. If they are text files and you are still able to view them then it would be possible to simpily make a physical copy (paper and pencil style) then run your virus scan and delete them again then just retype the files (yes it takes a while but you get your info w/o the virus).
2006-06-13 13:38:13 · answer #1 · answered by tsukasa654 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are some file recovery software programs out there however you would risk re-infecting you system and the software is not cheap and no guarantee you will find what you are looking for. . . .
That should be worth 10 points!
2006-06-13 20:08:37 · answer #2 · answered by Shy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if they were in there, they were infected, you could not use them anyway without reinfecting the computer, you can check the recycle bin, gut I would theink they are gone for good, once they became infected, if they were uncleanable, they were no good anyway
2006-06-13 20:04:51 · answer #3 · answered by butchell 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you wouldn't want to restore them if they contained viruses
2006-06-13 22:57:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋