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myLot reputation of 84/100. Little_Boy (342)   ranked 1,662 out of 8,747 in computers 3 years ago

This is the most peculiar problem I have ever faced. Yesterday, I found that all of my word documents have been converted to Screen Saver files! How do I know? The extension of Microsof Word files is *.doc whereas the extention of a screen saver file is *.scr. And all my word files have got *.scr extension! Oh my God!

I searched in google what this problem could be. What I found was, this evil deed is done by a virus called JEREMY.A! This nasty virus attacks all of the Word or Excel documents in your computer and changes the extension making it impossible to open the original word file.shocked

I am perplexed what to do. Anybody has any experience in this regard?cry

 

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tags:  screen saver, virus, computer, doc help, file extension
 
1. myLot reputation of 70/100. diamania (3869)   ranked 770 out of 8,747 in computers   3 years ago

Try to change the file name to something with a .doc extension.


myLot reputation of 84/100. Little_Boy (342)   ranked 1,662 out of 8,747 in computers  3 years ago

Thanks for your reply. But that does not help. When I change the extension from *.scr to *.doc, the icon changes only. But when I am going to open it, MSWord says "this feature is not currently installed, install now?", I click "Yes", then something is installed, and the file opens with encoded characters! Not with what I had composed!yawn

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2. pointlessneedles (30)   3 years ago

wow i am pretty experienced with computers and i can honestly say ive never seen that can you open them as screen savers?


myLot reputation of 84/100. Little_Boy (342)   ranked 1,662 out of 8,747 in computers  3 years ago

No, I cannot open them as screen savers. When I double-click any of them, a message pop ups "....not a valid win32 file". So, I think there is no possiblity that I can recover them. I have many many importants files within those corrupted files. I cannot understand what to do now. How to recover the files.cry


pointlessneedles (30)  3 years ago

hmm im sure there has to be a way i will try googleing something and see if i can find something to help


myLot reputation of 84/100. Little_Boy (342)   ranked 1,662 out of 8,747 in computers  3 years ago

I believe this is a rare case! For this reason, there is not much information in the websites about this problem. I tried to find out from various websites what the problem could be, but could not find any satisfactory answer or solution. Thank you a lot for coming ahead to spare me a little time in this regard.confused


pointlessneedles (30)  3 years ago

hi i found this site maybe it will help http://www.securitystronghold/gates/jermy.a.html


pointlessneedles (30)  3 years ago

hi i found this site maybe it will help http://www.securitystronghold/gates/jermy.a.html

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3. myLot reputation of 78/100. shankarbaddi (500)   ranked 802 out of 8,747 in computers   3 years ago

What i suggest you is right mouse click on the word document then click open with
then point out to the microsoft word icon if u cannot find this is in the list click the option browse from there point it out to the word document. If not the other option that is available is right click the word document then go to properties there u can see an rectangle box as "change" click on it if you find word document option over there then click on it and press ok. I believe that this will solve your problem. Let me know with the results.
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4. myLot reputation of 99/100. mysf71 (528)   3 years ago

That's a strange incident indeed. I never came across such a weird event. Can you try this: Change the file names to .doc then open an instance of MS Word, then click Open from File menu, navigate to your .doc files and open them from there (what I want to mean is that don't open .doc files by double clicking). Does it work now?

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5. myLot reputation of 75/100. EliteUser (3913)   ranked 1,637 out of 8,747 in computers   3 years ago

Hey,

I don't really know how to fix your problem, I am truly sorry. Hopefully someone else will be able to answer your question better than I have done, in a really good way so you can actually benefit from it. Make sure you have a good day, Happy MyLotting!!

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