All the files from my business of 8 years have been corrupted.
Can someone help my before I throw myself off a bridge? I live in London.
All the files from my business of 8 years have been corrupted
by usualusername 11 Replies latest jw friends
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usualusername
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laverite
First, don't panic. You will ultimately need a good computer tech person who knows what they are doing and are experts in file recovery. What seems impossible may actually be possible. Just try to stay calm as possible and explore options and consult experts.
Good luck!
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Witness My Fury
Define corrupted.
Do you mean the files themselves or the drive they are on? More info needed ...
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usualusername
Ok I got Cryptolocker virus
Removed it and danced for joy
Went to my skydrive account (thinking they were safe) and found that they were infected too.
Apparenlty I need to get the virus back and pay them 300 dollars to fix it
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konceptual99
Cryptolocker is a bitch.
If your files have been corrupted (encrypted actually) then the best you can hope for is to be able to go to backups.
I don't use Skydrive so I don't know the details but doesn't it keep 25 versions? If so then there should be a previous version on there before the encryption took place.
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Earnest
If you don't have an unaffected backup there doesn't seem much you can do.
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Witness My Fury
Well that's a bitch, sorry man unless you have backups of important stuff then it's gone.
Just to state the blindingly obvious....Always backup important files, the more important they are then make more than one backup and on different media, cloud, another computer, spare hard drive, DVDs, if the files are small then email them to yourself on more than one account etc etc.
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besty
pay the $300 and view it as an educational investment in good practice.
PS If you are going to jump of a bridge in London please avoid rush hour as that is pretty selfish :-) I hate when people throw themselves under a train during rush hour...
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J. Hofer
and by backups i don't mean just copying the current state to another medium, i mean daily backups, so you can go back in time and get a version that hasn't been afflicted by the virus.