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I have just removed an infection from a computer without much of an issue. i then made a backup and totally rebuilt my pc to original software load but the infection has left behind a big problem. It has renamed almost all of the common such as .jpg, .doc, .xls, .js, .php, .docx, .ppt, etc. to [filename].jpg.block, [filename].doc.block, [filename].xls.block, etc.
The situation has gotten worse. I have started renaming the files to remove the ".block" and none of the files work with their original extensions.
anyone with ideas how to recover the files? thanks. :banghead:
I have just removed an infection from a computer without much of an issue. i then made a backup and totally rebuilt my pc to original software load but the infection has left behind a big problem. It has renamed almost all of the common such as .jpg, .doc, .xls, .js, .php, .docx, .ppt, etc. to [filename].jpg.block, [filename].doc.block, [filename].xls.block, etc.
The situation has gotten worse. I have started renaming the files to remove the ".block" and none of the files work with their original extensions.
anyone with ideas how to recover the files? thanks. :banghead: