09-01-2016, 02:02 PM
(09-01-2016, 11:24 AM)Partha Wrote:At first Thanks to both of you.(09-01-2016, 10:46 AM)Britec Wrote: Like Partha said, you just went and plugged in your USB drive without using a protection for that USB drive, if you had a virus or malware like autorun on there, it would of already run, that's why partha said install Panda USB vaccine, this will protect your computer from autorun type malware.Thanks, Brian. I wanted to point that out as well. He did take a risk there
I would like just to mention how exactly it happened.
I had installed at that time the Panda free antivirus.
I was working with my Computer - improving this 'Amadeus Programs'. The only case I got this virus, was getting connected with the ... Greek Tax Office ( the exact same thing happened to the person that is my Hardware Supporter). It sounds ridiculous, but that's the truth. A few hours later I copied the AMADEUS directory to the USB ( feeling sure that I backed up my work). But I got .....
Anyhow I followed Partha's suggestions.
I tried to download the Pandasecurity Vaccine from Partha's post. It was requesting for me to fill out My name. e-mail, etc. and it was saying that they would send by e-mail the link for performing the download. It never came.
By the way I have now the Panda Global Protection and so I called the Panda office in Greece telling them the whole story. They told that they were including the Panda Vaccine program in the new applications of 2016 (ie I have it).
I ran it as well the Zemana program that Partha suggested.
I made a copy of the USB - AMADEUS directory to a CD.
I opened the CD, files were looking normal as always, dates & sizes correct, but when i tried to open some .accdb or .xlsx or .docx files UNFORTUNATELY I cannot open them and I am getting the messages like ' is in a different format', or ' file format or file extension is not valid' or 'unrecognized database format'
Probably in others words I guess , I am cooked.