Data recovery from virus affected hard drive

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Computer viruses are small set of human made executable program which runs on operating system automatically without seeking permission from the user of computer. These viruses corrupt operating system, important software as well as data of hard drive such as file, folder, images, audio and video etc.

Data loss is a major problem caused by viruses and they hold the credit of 7-8% of data loss among all data loss reasons from the hard disk. The loss of data from the storage media can be easily recovered by advanced data recovery software, which is easily available online.

How Virus comes in to your computer

• Viruses present in attached file of E-mails which runs automatically after opening of E-mails
• Downloading .exe file from those website in the Internet, which are not scanned for viruses present in the software
• Visiting virus affected website
• Connecting virus affected storage media such as external hard disk drive, flash memory, CD and DVD etc.

How to prevent viruses from computer:

• Install best anti-virus from the market and update it at regular interval of time
• Scan your computer at regular interval of time with installed anti-virus software
• Check all attached file in mail from anti-virus software
• Always perform deep scan of external devices while connecting to computer
• Don’t visit further on those website where virus is detected by search engine or anti-virus software
• Always update operating system and web browser

Conclusion: Viruses can cause data loss from storage media by corrupting important file, folder and documents. In worst cases, they damage important program of operating system, which are required for its proper functioning and formatting of operating system can cause data loss from whole hard drive. In that case data recovery software can be used to recover the lost data from formatted hard disk drive.

Advice: Try to prevent your computer from virus rather to use any recovery software.