Well, yesterday I think I finally discovered what deleted my
data.
arty:
About a month ago, I downloaded a demo version of some software off the
Internet, and installed it onto my hard drive. Then, last week, right
about the same time that I lost my data, I uninstalled that program. I
didn`t link the 2 together at first, but yesterday, I ran the
uninstaller for that demo program again (because I thought there were
still traces of it left on my system), and right after I ran the
uninstaller, the exact same files that got deleted last week,
dissappeared again.:shock:
Then I copied the uninstaller into a virtual machine, and tested it
out, and it deleted a few folders off of the virtual drive as well. I
have no idea how it chooses which files to delete, but it appears to
work on some sort of a algorithm, cause it deleted the exact same files
off my hard drive twice. However, it can`t be too specific, because it
deleted a different set of files when I ran it on my virtual pc.
Weird...:huh:
Norton didn`t detect the file as a virus, so my guess is that there was
some sort of bug in the uninstaller that makes it delete the wrong
files, but who knows. Could have just been a fake file uploaded onto the
Internet to destroy the lives of all who download it!!:sa:
Anyways, I won`t be messing around with that demo again.
Thanks to everybody that helped me here. It sucks that I lost my data,
but at least I know it wasn`t a hacker now, and I found the source of
the problem, so it shouldn`t happen again.
-yoshimitsu
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