Hi Ǝиçεl,
No freeware or p2p are running. Back in 2000 when I had dial-up, I had a
p2p called Kazaa but its been removed since then. Why do you ask, it must be
more than curiosity, is there a link to this mess? Well whatever, I would
just like it fixed.
Thanks for any help you can give.
Bill was there a fix for defender back when it ate those files?
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Blue 2009
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Hi Blue,
Just out of curiosity
are you running freeware programs, and P2P programs like Alnet, Grokster,
Imesh, LimeWire, Bearshare, Grokster, KaZaA, and WinMX, Emule, eDonkey, etc.
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Actually wd has one folder called quarantine<then three folders(named
entries,resourses,resourse data)<resourse and resourse data have approx. 300
folders in each and those are numbered and lettered <and have 3 to 6 files in
each one. The file ext. seems to be just FILE or nothing? As you can see this
could be an ardous task. I tried a few first copying and then changing the
ext. and then trying out with windows media player but nothing worked. Why
won't the quarentine restore work?
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Blue 2009
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This is reminiscent of some issues with Defender early on where it ate vast
libraries of MP3 files which were stored in subdirectories of some app which
was removed as spyware, along with music at lower levels in the tree.
The quarantine is not too hard to find, as I recall, and files in it were
basically renamed as numbers.
So, if you can guess what kind of extension belongs on that file--from your
description, perhaps ZIP? you may be able to rescue it by finding the
quarantine and renaming the file and copying/moving it back to the desktop.
I should say that a not infrequent occurrence was that someone would see
that their music was being sucked down a black hole, yell "***** *****" and
hit the reset button, or something similar. This had the result of the
quarantine process being stopped dead in midstream, and the various indexes
and files not updated which would have allowed for proper restore function.
(and for more parenthetical info, MP3 files contain their titles in the file
itself, so with persistence, it was possible to not just recover the files,
but even rename them back to their original names if you were really
clever.)
So--where is the quarantine? Let me see if I can check that for you.
OK - (used XP Mode on Windows 7, uninstalled Microsoft Security Essentials,
installed WD, and here:
C:\documents and settings\all users\application data\microsoft\windows
defender\quarantine
is where I believe the quarantined files will be found. I retyped that by
hand, and I didn't know which of those folders is hidden, so just go to a
command prompt and type in CD documents and settings (enter) and work your
way down the chain til you get there.
I also don't recall if there are permissions issues--but I think not.
So--find files in that folder, and experiment with renaming them to see if
you can get back something usable..
Let us know whether this helps--thanks!
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Hello Everyone, Installed Windows Defender for xp, [v.1.1593.0\
def.1.65.477.0] ran update, then scan, and it found 6 old files on my
computer (took a long time to finish scan - 1.5+ hr.). Quarantined all 6
files. After looking at history, found that one file contained a lot of
music
and other programs. Tried to restore it but it failed. Error code
0x80508014.
This file was on my desktop. Tried numerous times - failed. Tried to
system
restore to earlier date - ok, but file would not open? Set system restore
back to original. Still, Windows Defender quarantine restore will not
work.
Really would like to have file back.
Searched the net, could not find any help; Hope someone here can.
