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| 31190 | 2002-01-14 11:02:00 | I think I may have been the victim of a hacker. All folders and shortcuts on my desktop were removed. I later found one of the folders but it was emptied, with a lot of omportant stuff gone awol. Is there any way of resurrecting the files. Could they be hidden somewhere. The foldeers are saying they have 0 objects in them. Hopefully someone can help me. | Guest (0) | ||
| 31191 | 2002-01-14 11:42:00 | I presume you have a backup of your work? If so, I would try restoring the info from this first. | Guest (0) | ||
| 31192 | 2002-01-14 12:47:00 | It wouldn't have be a 'hacker'. It could have been caused by an error in your disk (running scandisk may recover some files or an undelete program), or a virus/worm that has infected your system. But the most common cause of disappearing files from my experience would have to be children. |
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| 31193 | 2002-01-14 22:14:00 | Ross If it is really important stuff, don't fiddle with it yourself, get expert help. By expert help I mean somebody who can recover data non-destructively as deleted data is usually still there, your computer just can't access it. Even a reformatted disk can have data recovered. Problem is, well meaning 'experts' can trash your drive so badly that there is no hope of recovery. If you really need to get the situation under control and recover critical data, i recommend Computer Forensics Ltd (0800 lostfiles or 09 3599 424). Talk to Cameron and he will tell you what they can do for you. I have used them myself and they recovered 100% of my data from a dead hard drive that would spin but do nothing else. It's not cheap but it's worth it if the loss of your data could be damaging to your business. Good luck Billy 8-{) |
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| 31194 | 2002-01-14 23:20:00 | I'm unsure if you had a hacker or not however I recomend you take a few basic precautions just to be safe. Notify your ISP (and anyone else you had passwords to acess their sites with) that you beleive you may have been hacked. Run an up to date anti virus to make sure you dont have a little present left behind and then go to a good anti trojan site and run an anti trojan scanner through as well. Once you think your system is clean then install a firewall...www.zonelabs.com for a free zonealarm firewall. NOW change your passwords...not before or if a trojan is present the hacker will get your new ones too. Another recommendation is to notify the manufacturers of all commercial software that you may have been hacked....if the hacker got your serial numbers then they usually post them on the net for all to use. The worst thing about being hacked is that it looks like you that is now running around doing nasty things to others etc. As far as the companies are concerned it is you unless you notify them straight away.... as to the data retreival I agree with billy t but if you dont want to spend that much money then borrow someones copy of norton utilities and use the data retreival function on there....please leave the other bits in utilities alone tho....it likes to play with things too much....and DONT do a defrag or add new programs etc till you have retreived your data or you will find it gets written over. |
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