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My files all say O bytes!!!
All my files say 0 bytes, I know though that they are most certainly NOT 0 bytes. I had these files for a while so that's how i know but how come they are 0? Is it a virus or something?
ejn63
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April 5th, 2004 00:00
Is your antivirus software up to date and running?
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ejn63
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nova1128
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April 5th, 2004 00:00
Well....
The files are "tehre" with their appropriate names but it says 0 bytes. But everything else is fine just my word documents, music, and images are gone. Does this help?
dageezerus
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ejn63
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April 5th, 2004 00:00
You need to scan the system to find out what virus or worm hit it. Try http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
However, if you're seeing zero-byte files, those files are gone - you will need to restore them from your backups; there's no way to recover them if they've been overwritten with zero-byte files.
bois dormant
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April 5th, 2004 12:00
what you really need to do is run an online virus scan as suggested.
and you must have an anti-virus nowadays, so please protect yourself and others with one. as suggested earlier, go to www.grisoft.com for their free version of AVG.
good luck
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April 12th, 2004 22:00
Mike.