My Documents Are Hidden!

Target Audience:Techs

Lately I’ve been seeing infections of rogue anti-viruses that are hiding people’s files in their”My Documents” folders, and warning them that there hard drive has critical error. Here are the tools I used to  fix the problem:

Process Explorer & Autoruns from Microsoft’s Sysinternals: To identify the rogue processes, terminate it, and prevent it from running again at start-

UnHide.exe from bleepingcomputer.com: This program unhides user files and is supposed to keep system files hidden.

SuperAntiSpyware: to clean up remaining bits of malware.

AccRestore v2.0:  On one system the Accessories Folder wasn’t just hidden it was deleted. I used this simple tool from Ramesh Srinivasan to fix it.

The final part is to educate users on safe browsing habits, and to offer anti-virus solutions.

I hope this has been useful in the battle against Malware.

-Nomad Computer Repair

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