My home laptop was attacked by a few virus trojan yesterday night when I was reading one beauty blog after googled for “Vanity Trove”. It all happened in front of my eyes. First my antivirus detected a few virus and quarantined the buggers away, then my mp3 which was playing that time shut down and then the files on my desktop starts to be missing one by one and my hard disk died. The next thing I know is everything in my laptop is wiped out. Desktop is blank, all the item in Start button is blank as well. Everything is not clickable or accessible.

What do I do? I went to sleep. There’s nothing I can do at that hour and I was sleepy. Obviously my KLCC shopping trip the next day would be canceled. Before that I did some google search on this and I found some solution that I would try the next morning.

This morning I use my work laptop to go online and found an interesting website. The website did a post on how to restore missing files and folders after virus attack. The author also provide a free application to restore all files and folder. I was completely blocked from going online with my infected laptop (all application is missing) so what I do is I downloaded the application and save it to a thumbdrive. Then I plug in the thumbdrive to the infected laptop and run it.

Here’s the application download link http://trojan-killer.net/download/unhider.exe

Windows XP user can just download and run the application. Windows Vista and Windows 7 would need to download and run the application with administrator rights. Ok, here’s the tricky part. After you click on the application it may seems that nothing is working BUT actually Unhider is doing the job behind the scene. Give it a few minutes for it to do it’s magic and you’d see that all the files and folders are back. You have no idea how happy I am to see my files start to reappear on my desktop.

Hope this info helps.