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IokozFynest
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Virus attack on External

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‎06-26-2012 02:55 AM

A virus/trojan recently attacked my computer and WD external hard drive.  I manage to save my computer and everything on it. but not my external, the problem is that the virus has which appears to have wiped out the external but when I check properties it still reveals that it is very much full,  I also did a McAfee scan and it seems to pick up everything on the external, but I can not see icons or use anything on it, please help

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Alucardx23
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Re: Virus attack on External

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‎06-27-2012 12:37 PM

Try using a data recovery program and then format the HDD to use it again.

 

http://www.piriform.com/RECUVA

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Keith
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Re: Virus attack on External

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‎07-11-2012 08:09 AM

Where are we with this?

 

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