Re: AFTER UPDATING, FILES ARE MISSING FROM MY DESKTOP

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"This was accidentally done by you or deliberately/accidently done by
someone who had access
to your notebook. "

It literally happened while I was asleep, alone, in my apartment. Would
someone have access over an unsecure network? I'm not as upset about the
missing files (thank God they weren't crucial) as much as I am just freaked
out wondering what happened....

For the author above:
I did remember a file name and did a complete search for it. It showed the
file had two shortcuts located at these two places

C:\Users\Kate\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows and \Office

Does that mean anything to anyone?


"David H. Lipman" wrote:

From: "Kate" <Kate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

| Last Thursday night I was working on my laptop, specifically on school stuff
| which all gets saved in a folder SCHOOL on my desktop. Friday morning (I
| think after updates were installed), the folder, and about two other misc
| folders are gone from my desktop. They aren't in the recycle bin, and my
| anti-virus software does not seem to have touched them. When I open Word and
| try to open a document saved in this "missing" folder, it cannot. I did a
| system restore to Feb 2. When it finished booting up, all of my folders were
| there, and then two of them disappeared in front of my eyes. SCHOOL was back
| however. When I opened SCHOOL, most of the subfolders were missing, there
| were no documents in it, and the subfolders that WERE there contained
| unidentifiable files.
|
| I am in medical school. I NEED my SCHOOL folder.
|
| Please don't make me switch to a Mac. This is CRAZINESS

Then switch to a MAC because installing Windows Updates will NOT delete your personal data.
This was accidentally done by you or deliberately/accidently done by someone who had access
to your notebook.

Additionally, the System restore cache does NOT store documents. The System Restore cache
only backs up; EXE files, DLL files, the Registry and other critical OS/Software related
constructs.

BTW: If those files were so critical, why didn't make backups ?
I hear your pain but remember, computers are relatively worthless. Data has the "true"
value. A valuable, but costly, lesson was learned in this.

**Please do learn form this lesson.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp



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