Virus - Ms-Word, Excel gone to 0KB

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jagan

Hello Helpers

Can anyone help me?

I have very important data on my one of the hard disk in word files an
excel files, that got infecetd by virus on 10-4-2004. And the virus se
these all important files to 0Kb size.

All the computers are on network and we are using windows 98 OS.

I have found my lost files at C:\WINDOWS\Applicatio
Data\Microsoft\Office\Recent

But these files are are with .lnk extension, they are having bytes i
these files. But they do not open. These all are word files and exce
files.

How can i take back data from these .lnk files, these point t
c:/windows/temp folder. and in temp no data

Jaga
 
Hi Jagan,
You did not name the virus, did you really have it and
is it cured. The .lnk extension indicates a shortcut.
Try going to your system Start, Find, and look for the
file on your system with an * in place of the .lnk

You said this is a network drive so you will have to search
your space on the newtwork drive as well.

Make sure that you don't have file extensions hidden on your
machine. If these are network drives the systems admin
should have file backups. More information on hidden files
and doing your own backups in
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/backup.htm

Obviously if the files you have have a zero length then you
have no data. I don't know anything about recovering from a
virus but you should look at the major anti-virus sites for more
information about the particular virus that was identified.

All of the *.lnk files that I have on my own system are in my
c:\Documents and Settings folders. Even though I have
my system not hide file and to not hide file extensions the
FIND did not show the *.lnk extension so the shortcuts
looked like regular files (except for the arrow on on icon to
indicate a shortcut, and the small files size). I'll have to try
to keep this in mind about .lnk files when I run across more
information about why I don't see the ".lnk" file extension.

When you specify I date, I would recommend that you
spell out the month as in 10Apr2004 or use the unambigious
ISO date 2004-04-10 instead of as you indicate 10--04-2004
which is ambiguous as to what the month is and what the
day of the month is. (except that October is still in the future).
I have found my lost files at C:\WINDOWS\Application
Data\Microsoft\Office\Recent
Click to expand...

and those would all be shortcuts not actual files, which on
my sysem would be
c:\documents and settings\USERID\recent

Also check with your system administrator if usernames
got changed, access got changed, or directories got moved around.

HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm
 
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