Solved Finding Favorites after virus

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.

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.

Hi

Which brower do you use is IE8...

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.

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.

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.

Checked documents...no luck. could be gone forever...I also have another new problem when starting computer it beeps LOUD a couple dozen times.

Hi,
Thought you might have checked, but was worth a try!
Have a look at the contents in the link re: beep codes, see if anything sounds (no pun intended)
familiar?
Toshiba - understanding beep codes

It may be worth also checking into the Toshiba website and see if there are any updates to your P305?
Toshiba Satellite Pro® Laptop Computers | US.Toshiba.com
Thank you.

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 .

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.

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.