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How To Restore Hidden Files

The document provides instructions for restoring files hidden by a virus on a Windows 7 system using the command prompt. Some viruses hide files and folders on flash drives by modifying their attributes to make them hidden. The tutorial explains how to use the ATTRIB command in command prompt to modify the attributes of all files and folders on a drive to restore any that were hidden by a virus. It also notes that Smadav Antivirus can automatically detect and restore any hidden files on a flash drive.

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How To Restore Hidden Files

The document provides instructions for restoring files hidden by a virus on a Windows 7 system using the command prompt. Some viruses hide files and folders on flash drives by modifying their attributes to make them hidden. The tutorial explains how to use the ATTRIB command in command prompt to modify the attributes of all files and folders on a drive to restore any that were hidden by a virus. It also notes that Smadav Antivirus can automatically detect and restore any hidden files on a flash drive.

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How To : Restore Files Hidden by Virus on Windows 7

Some virus do hide file and folder in flashdisk that connected to a computer or laptop infected by virus.
And then we tried to scan the flashdisk using antivirus program. We are very happy because antivirus
can detect and remove virus in the flashdisk, but it doesn’t return our files and folder hidden by the
virus. I hope the virus did not delete the files, just make it hidden. If your files was deleted by virus, we
need a tool to restore files. If the files was hidden, we need to restore our files manually using command
prompt. This tutorial is for Windows 7 user.

Virus has modified the attribut of folders and files to be hidden. So, we will try to modify the folders and
files attribut to restore.

Open command prompt from START MENU > RUN. Type CMD and hit enter. Go
to the drive, for example your flashdisk is on drive E. Type “e:” and enter.
The command we use to restore files is ATTRIB. Type this command :

attrib –s –h *.* /S /D and hit enter.


Finished. If you want the easier way to restore your files, you could use Smadav Antivirus. It can detect
hidden files in your flashdisk and restore them.

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