Recovering Infected Documents, Help needed
Dejan Farkas
Mar 26 2009, 11:22 PM
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I need some help here. A friend of mine gave me a USB stick which was infected by a virus and has a lot of important documents that are infected, and asked me if I can recover them somehow.

AVG reports "worm/vb.yb" and it renamed a bunch of .DOC files to .EXE

AVG gives only an option to delete these files, and even renaming them back to DOC do not solve the problem since the files are still infected and cannot be opened (AVG prevent the opening).

Does anyone knows if these files can be recovered and how, or are they completely lost?

Tried to google for solution, unsuccessfully

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- Dejan Farkas   Recovering Infected Documents   Mar 26 2009, 11:22 PM
- - kahall   Scan the jump drive with Malwarebytes. I bet it ge...   Mar 27 2009, 02:42 AM
- - Ramiro Delforte   In the link below you'll find lots of great fr...   Mar 27 2009, 04:23 AM
- - Dejan Farkas   Thanks guys for replies, I will try that Any oth...   Mar 27 2009, 03:23 PM
- - Ivan Milenkovic   Unfortunately no solution Dejan, in those cases it...   Mar 27 2009, 04:06 PM
- - tonymiro   I think Ivan is right here Dejan. Normally if the ...   Mar 27 2009, 05:37 PM
- - Dejan Farkas   Her computer at work was infected as well and had ...   Mar 28 2009, 12:53 AM
- - Azzaboi   Are the documents Microsoft Word? I heard WordFI...   Mar 28 2009, 02:38 AM
- - Dejan Farkas   These were word documents It seems the documents ...   Mar 28 2009, 10:40 PM
|- - kahall   QUOTE (Dejan Farkas @ Mar 28 2009, 04:40 ...   Mar 29 2009, 05:38 AM
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- - JCJXXL   Honestly to have to reformat a computer due to a v...   Mar 29 2009, 05:21 AM
- - Dejan Farkas   QUOTE (JCJXXL @ Mar 29 2009, 06:21 AM) Ho...   Mar 29 2009, 12:52 PM
|- - 29a   QUOTE (Dejan Farkas @ Mar 29 2009, 01:52 ...   Mar 30 2009, 04:58 PM
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- - Dejan Farkas   Thanks for the solution, I managed to recover all ...   Mar 31 2009, 12:07 AM
|- - 29a   QUOTE (Dejan Farkas @ Mar 31 2009, 01:07 ...   Mar 31 2009, 09:08 AM
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- - Dejan Farkas   Update: the documents are fully recovered I noti...   Mar 31 2009, 08:21 AM
- - kahall   QUOTE (Dejan Farkas @ Mar 31 2009, 02:21 ...   Apr 1 2009, 05:03 AM
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