How to restore deleted files after virus infection?

How virus enter into our computer?

There are many causes for virus attack:

1.       Email attachment

2.       You have installed some unknown, pirated malware or applications.

3.       You have visited some unsafe pages or clicked some malicious link.

4.       You have connected a virus-infected mobile storage device to your computer.

5.       Download unsafe files

What are the results of virus attack?

There are many types of virus and they have different purpose. Some virus are just for fun and will not steal your data. While other virus may cause serious computer problems. Such as the computer crash, some files deleted or hidden, some data are stolen, data loss in the U disk or external hard drive. If we lost the files from a long time hard work, it will cause serious problems for us. Especially the confidential data, it will cause disastrous consequences.

What should you do after a virus attack?

1.       Disconnect your computer from the Internet immediately.

2.       Use the anti-virus software to scan and clean your computer.

How to restore deleted files after virus infection?

There are main two ways for you : use Windows to recover or use data recovery software.

1.Window solutions

In Windows 7, you can recover files from the Windows’ backups.

1.       Press Windows key on keyboard; or click “ start—control panel”

2.       Click “system and security—Backup and Restore”

3.       Choose “Select another backup to restore files from”

For this way, you should have configured the automatic backup settings before that.

Restore from previous version

You can right click a drive, file folder or file, right-click to choose properties.

1.       Find the folder you lost files after virus attack

2.       Right-click to choose “properties”

3.       find the “previous versions” option.

4.       Choose a proper restore point to restore.

2.       Recover with Hdata recovery software

Data recovery software may be a more effective way to recover files lost from virus attack.

Step by step tutorials for recovering data from virus infection:

1.       First, download the software on the official website

2.       Open the software and choose the proper mode.

3.       Start to scan. You can choose to scan a certain partition or the entire hard drive. You can choose the mode of “deleted your files accidentally” or “universal recovery”.

4.       Preview the scanned result.

5.       Choose a recovery path to save the recovered data.

6.       Check your recovered data.

Anyway, any data recovery method cannot ensure no risk at all. Backup is always the best way. To avoid data loss from virus attack, you should kill virus regularly and avoid to install or download malware.