How to manually restore files after virus attack

Resolving the problem of files, folders and other important data missing because of virus malicious activity on infected computer has become the challenge number one for many PC security companies, sites, forums and blogs today. Users not only need to actually remove the virus which became the source of such problem but, surely, they want to recover all their files and the entire information that became hidden by malware programs. It should be noted that such badware programs performing the above-mentioned modifications to hide user’s data are referred to the group of fake hard drive defragmenters. In this blog they belong to the category named ‘fake HDD’. For successful restoration of infected computers after fake HDD virus attack not only the virus removal is necessary. This job can be accomplished quite easily for the powerful anti-virus. The very removal process is described on the example of File Restore virus, one of the representatives of the above-mentioned malware family. The next step that must be accomplished successfully is restoring the files hidden by virus. There are various applications that can be downloaded and executed in order to perform this restoration job automatically. We will make emphasis, however, on manual restoration of missing data. This is because sometimes the above-mentioned utilities do not work for some reasons.

How to restore hidden and missing files after virus attack?

Today many users all over the world experience the great need to restore their missing and hidden data that was concealed intentionally by the malware. What malware was that, by the way? This group of infections is often referred to as fake hard drive defragmenters, and there have been many of them. We can give several names as examples - Data Recovery, File Recovery, File Restore rogues. File Restore is the latest threat, by the way. The malware after successful infiltration modifies the system parameters and launches itself on each system startup. Thus, once users turn their computers on the hoax comes up. Immediately it begins its malicious scan which is a fake scan, in fact. The virus then gives the number of fake reports about various unreal errors supposedly detected. The list of all these fake errors is quite large, by the way. We will not even mention them all to you. The most horrible fact about these viruses is that they hide all your data, such as desktop icons, shortcuts, Start menu items, programs, files, folders, pictures, documents, etc. As you see, this is all quite unexpected when users don't see any of their data at all.