I really need some help! Last week a window masquerading as a true windows screen but with four interlocking puzzle pieces as a logo in the upper left corner made an appearance on my computer screen. I have been sort of aware of this type of crap before so assumed it was some type of Malware, but Ctrl-Alt-Del wouldn't get rid of it. I had to turn the computer off to get rid of it, turned it back on and restored it to a previous date. Everything seemed ok.
On a previous computer I had had Ad-Aware and Spy-Bot running, so I did a search for Ad-Aware. Ended up at cnet, a site I was familiar with and trusted ... downloaded it ... or so I thought ... and ran it. I don't actually see it anywhere. I see Undeleter ... a yellow an orange life preserver logo.
Then I discovered a LOT of my photographs had disappeared ( a few folders of which I had saved to disk, but only a few) all but a few of my bookmarks had disappeared as well, my free version of Capture NX which had been bundled with my Nikon D300 won't work any more, and God knows what else.
I really think the Undeleter download did it. But maybe it was the Windows Recovery Malware. I right clicked and did a 'Restore previous versions' of some of my picture folders. Got back quite a few, but there's still a ton missing. There were two days I could recover those files from. Now those two days are gone, and the other days that are there, the folders are empty and I can't recover anything from them, of course.
Man, would I just love to have the pr**ks in front of me who developed this piece of s**t! Just for a minute! Unlike the old saying, revenge would be a dish best served hot ... no planning just give me an old Louisville Slugger and we'd see how many legs would remain unbroken.
Anyway, is there any chance at all, that I can get the rest of my photographs back. And yes, I do back up my photographs. I am an amateur photographer. I take a lot of photographs. I've had external hard drives crash, but never lost a thing because I'd backed them up on DVD's ... loads of them. I just hadn't had the time to get to the ones on this new computer. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated ... more than greatly appreciated ... you'd have a friend for life.
On a previous computer I had had Ad-Aware and Spy-Bot running, so I did a search for Ad-Aware. Ended up at cnet, a site I was familiar with and trusted ... downloaded it ... or so I thought ... and ran it. I don't actually see it anywhere. I see Undeleter ... a yellow an orange life preserver logo.
Then I discovered a LOT of my photographs had disappeared ( a few folders of which I had saved to disk, but only a few) all but a few of my bookmarks had disappeared as well, my free version of Capture NX which had been bundled with my Nikon D300 won't work any more, and God knows what else.
I really think the Undeleter download did it. But maybe it was the Windows Recovery Malware. I right clicked and did a 'Restore previous versions' of some of my picture folders. Got back quite a few, but there's still a ton missing. There were two days I could recover those files from. Now those two days are gone, and the other days that are there, the folders are empty and I can't recover anything from them, of course.
Man, would I just love to have the pr**ks in front of me who developed this piece of s**t! Just for a minute! Unlike the old saying, revenge would be a dish best served hot ... no planning just give me an old Louisville Slugger and we'd see how many legs would remain unbroken.
Anyway, is there any chance at all, that I can get the rest of my photographs back. And yes, I do back up my photographs. I am an amateur photographer. I take a lot of photographs. I've had external hard drives crash, but never lost a thing because I'd backed them up on DVD's ... loads of them. I just hadn't had the time to get to the ones on this new computer. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated ... more than greatly appreciated ... you'd have a friend for life.
