Need help recovering from virus.

[Adamodium]

Well. Basically i somehow got a virus, i think it was called viruT or
something and it infected all executables on my c: drive (main hard drive).
After this i was prevented from logging on to windows to save any of my
important files so i formatted my D: drive and did a clean install onto it.
From this new install i can get to some of my files but the most important
are in My Documents which is protect and just give me an access denied
message when i try opening it. The user account i'm trying to get on wasn't
passworded, but was protected anyway and i would love to have those files
back. Is there any hope of would i have to just give up?

 

[Sharon Franks]

You need to take ownership of the folder or files
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421


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Sharon Franks
MCC group
Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD)
Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT).



"Adamodium" <Adamodium@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Well. Basically i somehow got a virus, i think it was called viruT or
> something and it infected all executables on my c: drive (main hard
> drive).
> After this i was prevented from logging on to windows to save any of my
> important files so i formatted my D: drive and did a clean install onto
> it.
> From this new install i can get to some of my files but the most important
> are in My Documents which is protect and just give me an access denied
> message when i try opening it. The user account i'm trying to get on
> wasn't
> passworded, but was protected anyway and i would love to have those files
> back. Is there any hope of would i have to just give up?