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- Jan 29, 2002
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OK I woke up today went to my D: drive on laptop and found that all my folders have been renamed to some wiered short names (DOS like but without ~).
AND i can't access any folder. This is my college laptop I GOT ALL MY WORK THERE !!!
The laptop is mostly "ON", on wireless too, but i frigging 'bulletproof'ed my wirelesss (ALL possible tricks i could find,No SSID broadcast,MAC filtering,etc)
Plus only old people live in my building, i don't think they bother breaking WLANs.
Maybe it's a worm, my own program?
It's only on disk Dwhich was openly shared), C: is fine(it wasn't shared). After i rebooted "The BAT" email client created new 'My Documents' folder and its own subfolder for storing email, meaning that even windows doesn't see those short named folders as my old folders,it just created new ones. Same for 'Favorites' folder = new and empty. Sh*t.
What do i do....i gotta recover the data in those folders, guys.
I googled my *** off today (please don't suggest search) , checked everything with AV,Ad-Aware,Spybot. Did system restore but my drive D: is not covered by System Restore.(I have no extra space). I've looked at D: from another comp on the network, the folder names still look wiered.
In 'My Comp' drive D: is almost full (i know the folders contain data,i just can't access it).
Can somebody help me?
EDIT: ohh yeah i can't rename them to normal names either. It says "The filename syntax is incorrect".
This triggered a thought in my head. I remmeber an old joke where one renames folders with (holding) ALT 255 (on keypad) this creates characters that Win can't recognise and user kills himself over it. Maybe someone accesseed my drive and did just that. how do i undo it? rename them from DOS?
Here is a pic:
AND i can't access any folder. This is my college laptop I GOT ALL MY WORK THERE !!!
The laptop is mostly "ON", on wireless too, but i frigging 'bulletproof'ed my wirelesss (ALL possible tricks i could find,No SSID broadcast,MAC filtering,etc)
Plus only old people live in my building, i don't think they bother breaking WLANs.
Maybe it's a worm, my own program?
It's only on disk Dwhich was openly shared), C: is fine(it wasn't shared). After i rebooted "The BAT" email client created new 'My Documents' folder and its own subfolder for storing email, meaning that even windows doesn't see those short named folders as my old folders,it just created new ones. Same for 'Favorites' folder = new and empty. Sh*t.
What do i do....i gotta recover the data in those folders, guys.
I googled my *** off today (please don't suggest search) , checked everything with AV,Ad-Aware,Spybot. Did system restore but my drive D: is not covered by System Restore.(I have no extra space). I've looked at D: from another comp on the network, the folder names still look wiered.
In 'My Comp' drive D: is almost full (i know the folders contain data,i just can't access it).
Can somebody help me?
EDIT: ohh yeah i can't rename them to normal names either. It says "The filename syntax is incorrect".
This triggered a thought in my head. I remmeber an old joke where one renames folders with (holding) ALT 255 (on keypad) this creates characters that Win can't recognise and user kills himself over it. Maybe someone accesseed my drive and did just that. how do i undo it? rename them from DOS?
Here is a pic:
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