Solved Finding Favorites after virus

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tmcarpe

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Hello, I recently encountered the Windows Recovery Virus. I have gotten rid of the Virus, but can not find my favorites. I use Internet Explorer any help would be greatly appreciated.
 

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tmcarpe said:
Hello, I recently encountered the Windows Recovery Virus. I have gotten rid of the Virus, but can not find my favorites. I use Internet Explorer any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hello and welcome.

There are many different kinds of Anti-Virus and in this case I would run another full up-dated scan using your security software.

If you do not have this then download malwarebytes and run a full scan also, download the free version. here is the link Malwarebytes : Free anti-malware, anti-virus and spyware removal download

After scanning them both please post back to this thread and let us know the results.
 

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Hi

Which brower do you use is IE8...
 

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    Graphics card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
    Sound Card
    Intergrated Realtex ALC888S Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    LG W40 series widescreen
    Screen Resolution
    1600 X 900
    Hard Drives
    1 640 GB Sata transfer rating: 3.0 Gb/sec speed: 7200 RPM
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    300W
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    Mid-Size ATX
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    Microsoft Wireless Mouse 5000
    Keyboard
    HP Multimedia Keyboard
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tmcarpe said:
Hello, I recently encountered the Windows Recovery Virus. I have gotten rid of the Virus, but can not find my favorites. I use Internet Explorer any help would be greatly appreciated.
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In start menu search, type shell:favorites , they should be there.
 

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I use ie8, I have run the malware, full scan it found no more virus's..also run spybot. did the shell/favorites..it showed my new favorites but not my old ones.
 

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    4 GB ram
Hi welcome to the forum.
Have you checked for a list of your Favourites in Documents or Files/Folders?
There is usually a duplicate record kept of what is on your Bar.
However, I don't know the extent of your virus damage.
It would I think be worth a look?
Thank you.
 

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    AMD Athlon 64 processor 3800 + 2.40GHz
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    2.50GB
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    nVidia GeForce
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    Realtec ALC888 Audio
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    17" LCD Monitor
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    160 Gb Usable Hard Drive
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Checked documents...no luck. could be gone forever...I also have another new problem when starting computer it beeps LOUD a couple dozen times.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    toshiba satellite p305
    CPU
    Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5750 @2.00 GHz
    Memory
    4 GB ram

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Hewlett-Packard SR5019UK
    CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 processor 3800 + 2.40GHz
    Motherboard
    M2N68-LA (Narra)
    Memory
    2.50GB
    Graphics card(s)
    nVidia GeForce
    Sound Card
    Realtec ALC888 Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    17" LCD Monitor
    Hard Drives
    160 Gb Usable Hard Drive
    Other Info
    HP G56 Laptop Win 7 64bit. 4Gb Ram DDR2's. Hitachi 450Gb Hard Drive. Pentium(R) Duel-Core CPU.
I wonder if it is possible to recover the document files of your favourites using the program Recuva?
I know it is usually known for the recovery of mistakenly deleted files etc.

Download Recuva 1.40.525 - FileHippo.com Freeware

However it is capable of bringing files back after, virus, crashes, and so on.
I leave it to you to see if it is worth a try.
Thank you .
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Hewlett-Packard SR5019UK
    CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 processor 3800 + 2.40GHz
    Motherboard
    M2N68-LA (Narra)
    Memory
    2.50GB
    Graphics card(s)
    nVidia GeForce
    Sound Card
    Realtec ALC888 Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    17" LCD Monitor
    Hard Drives
    160 Gb Usable Hard Drive
    Other Info
    HP G56 Laptop Win 7 64bit. 4Gb Ram DDR2's. Hitachi 450Gb Hard Drive. Pentium(R) Duel-Core CPU.
Hey thank you everyone..you a great help...I checked the beep codes and Its a memory partition i put in. I loaded linux in half my memory. You guys are a godsend, Microsoft should advertise you guys more. About the favorites, I will just start over, not that big a deal.
 

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System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    toshiba satellite p305
    CPU
    Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5750 @2.00 GHz
    Memory
    4 GB ram
Pleased you have got the things back to being safe & Sound.
I thank you for those kind words on behalf of all the members.

I shall mark this as solved.
Thank you &
Happy Computing.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Hewlett-Packard SR5019UK
    CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 processor 3800 + 2.40GHz
    Motherboard
    M2N68-LA (Narra)
    Memory
    2.50GB
    Graphics card(s)
    nVidia GeForce
    Sound Card
    Realtec ALC888 Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    17" LCD Monitor
    Hard Drives
    160 Gb Usable Hard Drive
    Other Info
    HP G56 Laptop Win 7 64bit. 4Gb Ram DDR2's. Hitachi 450Gb Hard Drive. Pentium(R) Duel-Core CPU.
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