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[EDYTHE]

Hi Yank -

       thanks for sending the information & screen shots - that was very kind of you !!

             - i think in my ignorence i hit 'delete' after the scan and then for the same reason found myself in Quarantine and then hit 'remove' thinking i was removing just the virus.....

         i just now went  quarantine and that program is GONE WITH THE WIND ! 

            i think the operative word ''Item' is too 'vague' within in the notice ..... ''item''cannot be restored once hitting ''remove'' (once at 'quarantine) ....perhaps for computer novices the term/warning ... 'program cannot be restored'..... might be more of a 'red-light'  and cause one to think twice before making that awful 'move' i did .  

          Just a thought -   thanks again for your help !  Edythe

[EDYTHE]

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1mcrtd wrote:

For what it's worth, the folks at Piriform who are the creators of CCleaner have a free application named Recuva that can sometimes recover deleted files.

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

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thanks for this !    :)  (for the future) 

[floplot Norton Fighter]

Hello EDYTHE

I would also like to point out that Yank's screenshots are from the Paid version of SAS. We usually recommend the free version of the program also.

[yank Trojan Terminator]

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floplot wrote:

Hello EDYTHE

I would also like to point out that Yank's screenshots are from the Paid version of SAS. We usually recommend the free version of the program also.

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Actually Flo - you are correct - but it was handy via Goggle and supplied answers in regards to Quaratine.  Sorry if I mislead anyone!

[SendOfJive Norton Fighter]

It looks to me like no programs were removed, only a couple of their entries in the Start Menu.  Also, it looks like the backups in C:\MYBACKUP were also removed - that is a good lesson in why backups should be stored on external media (an unconnected external harddrive or online) rather than on the same drive as the original files.

[EDYTHE]

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SendOfJive wrote:

It looks to me like no programs were removed, only a couple of their entries in the Start Menu.  Also, it looks like the backups in C:\MYBACKUP were also removed - that is a good lesson in why backups should be stored on external media (an unconnected external harddrive or online) rather than on the same drive as the original files.

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if they were only removed from Startup then i don't mind ( i wouldn't care 'if' the actual programs were removed since i don't use them and never will )... if they are removed removed from 'startup' then does that mean that 'loading' from a cold-boot should be 'faster' ?     for the future how do you 'transer a copy' to an 'external Hd or 'on-line' ?  thanks in advance for everyone's help here !!!  Edythe

ps:  is there a way i could do a 'search' to see if those two backup exe files are really gone ?  thanks !