mini crash recovery

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Appears that some sort of virus took me by surprise. It wiped out most
of my .jpg files (from dig. camera) and my TB email account.

The only thing I did prior was run AdAware in safe mode for XP.

I use AVG, Zone alarm Panicware's popup stopper.

Is there any hope of getting my pics back?

tks all.

I use xp home edition.


bill

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How do you know it was a virus? What signs are you getting and how are you
attempting to clean it?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"bill" <nospamhere@drmscp.com> wrote in message
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> Appears that some sort of virus took me by surprise. It wiped out most of
> my .jpg files (from dig. camera) and my TB email account.
>
> The only thing I did prior was run AdAware in safe mode for XP.
>
> I use AVG, Zone alarm Panicware's popup stopper.
>
> Is there any hope of getting my pics back?
>
> tks all.
>
> I use xp home edition.
>
>
> bill

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Rick "Nutcase" Rogers wrote:
> How do you know it was a virus? What signs are you getting and how are you
> attempting to clean it?
>
Rick "Nutcase" Rogers wrote:
> How do you know it was a virus? What signs are you getting and how
are you
> attempting to clean it?
>
you're right Rick, not sure if it was a birus at all. It seemed to wipe
out my pics .jpg's not all of the jpg's on the system in other image
viewing programs, just loose ones in my picutres folder.

wiped out my Thunderbird email pgm too.

I searched system, even hidden files, no luck.

will run defrag now.

tks Rick.

bill

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Hi Bill,

Virus tend to mutate or overwrite files, not delete them. Check the Recycle
Bin, and try an undelete utility.

This one here works quite well for basic file recovery:
http://www.all-freeware.com/gu4.htm

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"bill" <nospamhere@drmscp.com> wrote in message
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> Rick "Nutcase" Rogers wrote:
>> How do you know it was a virus? What signs are you getting and how are
>> you attempting to clean it?
>>
> you're right Rick, not sure if it was a birus at all. It seemed to wipe
> out my pics .jpg's not all of the jpg's on the system in other image
> viewing programs, just loose ones in my picutres folder.
>
> wiped out my Thunderbird email pgm too.
>
> I searched system, even hidden files, no luck.
>
> will run defrag now.
>
> tks Rick.
>
> bill