Re: [PCWorks] Corrupted MS files
- From: Hugh Vandervoort <hughva@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 05:11:49 -0400
Do you get an error message? What's the symptom of this corruption?
Have you tried opening these files with another copy of Word, or
Wordpad, Notepad or Libre office? Be careful of registry cleaners,
which can create more problems than they cure.
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Virginia Da Costa
<vdacosta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Suddenly, every one of my MS Word and Excel files created prior to
> yesterday (6 Sept.13) on my desktop computer (operating XP) have become
> corrupted and will not open. Fortunately the most important ones were
> backed up on to removable media, so all is not lost, but the whole thing
> is a mystery. I've heard of individual files becoming corrupted, but
> never every single one on the whole computer (and on Google Drive too).
> It doesn't seem to be the software, as the files in question won't open
> on any computer. Files created just yesterday are still OK and open
> normally.
>
> My Av software MS Security Essentials found a v*rus which it removed
> (Win32/Zbot) but the MS website said this was a password stealer and
> made no mention of it causing Word file corruption. I've done a registry
> clean and several further full scans after successive boot-ups, so
> hopefully the v*rus is not embedded in the registry.
>
> Any ideas on this? It's going to be a pain to get the files back into
> working order even though I have back-ups of the most important.
>
> Virginia Da Costa
>
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