Computer Data Recovery Help (Cary: install, pay, drive)
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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Anybody know the best/easiest way to repair/recover damaged pdf/html documents and files? Used a really terrible free antivirus (Avira) and got some REALLY BAD viruses on my computer. Now all my documents are unreadable. Both on my hard drive and on a usb. I've got hundreds of them!! Someone please help.
What do you mean when you say the documents are unreadable? Are you unable to log into Windows to access them, are they just looking like gibberish when you open them, or are you getting a message that they've been encrypted and you have to pay to retrieve them?
What do you mean when you say the documents are unreadable? Are you unable to log into Windows to access them, are they just looking like gibberish when you open them, or are you getting a message that they've been encrypted and you have to pay to retrieve them?
When I click on the pdfs it says Adobe cannot open the file because it has been damaged. Wordpad looks like gibberish. Html docs are blank.
Anybody know the best/easiest way to repair/recover damaged pdf/html documents and files? Used a really terrible free antivirus (Avira) and got some REALLY BAD viruses on my computer. Now all my documents are unreadable. Both on my hard drive and on a usb. I've got hundreds of them!! Someone please help.
Install and run MalwareBytes, then run a full scan with Avira to see if it finds any further malware/viruses.
"Free" antivirus doesn't equal terrible. Antiviruses can't stop what humans start by opening infected files/clicking on malware links. All an antivirus can do is clean up the mess after the fact.
This is what I get when I try to open pdfs in Word as well as Word docs themselves:
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FYI: PDFs opened in Word or Notepad or any another program that's not a PDF reader, will naturally show you gibberish. Information in a PDF is not stored as plain-text that you can read that way.
Just like you would get gibberish opening up a Word doc in a PDF reader.
But your Word Doc, opened up in Word, and being gibberish, is definitely a problem, (presuming you are distinguishing between the different Word formats, ie *.doc and not *.docx)
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