Anyone know how to recover hidden files after removing malware?

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Old 10-17-2011, 05:44 PM
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So the wifes work pc got some vicious malware that hides everything on it but its still there and was giving some gay *** bad hard drive messages even though everything is working fine. She had trend micro antivirus program which didnt seem to help. I downloaded webroot and found and removed more stuff and theres no more errors and bugs come up but all the files are still hidden. Anyone know the steps to recovering this stuff?
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Had that one a few months ago. I did a search for the files I was after and then changed them in properties from hidden to read only.
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if its real bad, boot into safe mode, get files you want, then do a clean install.
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Originally Posted by jboehm
Had that one a few months ago. I did a search for the files I was after and then changed them in properties from hidden to read only.
Did a quick search, totally forgot

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Advance settings , show hidden folders and files



Originally Posted by XtremeBBQ
if its real bad, boot into safe mode, get files you want, then do a clean install.




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