Viruses are not only cause of lost files!

When a hard drive is making an awful noise, more often then not you have a hardware problem. ECO Chief Engineer, Sean Flanders, warns "If you hear strange noises emanating from your computer, shut it off immediately before further damage is incurred".

When a drive is still grasping to life (barely spinning) many times people try cheapest solution and attempt to run a data recovery software utility. This is a major mistake! "Attempting to utilize recovery software can make your data hard to salvage if not impossible in some cases. "These programs may write data on drive which then overwrites your original data, making data recovery almost impossible", states Brian Cain, VP of sales at ECO.

Take heed in words of Charles Roover, President of ECO Data Recovery, "Be aware of fate that could befall your computer and/or network and take precautions. Back-up your files often! Nobody likes to think about losing their data, however, when you have a disaster, we're there to rescue you!"

Over past 10 years ECO Data Recovery has saved many individuals and companies by retrieving their lost data! We're only a phone call away!

Another virus infects your macros (macro virus) and affects usability of associated files, which are usually text editors or word processing programs. Turning your macros “off” could be considered, but their benefits are lost and virus has won, even before entry. These are harmless enough and there is no need to freak out. A free cleaning option is mentioned below.

Of course, if you can afford it, you should get an anti-virus program. Corporations, companies and anyone without financial restraint have such programs updated continuously as no-one can predict when (in real time) that some virus creator will decide to unleash his newest version. Previous virus definitions are of little use in protecting against future viruses. Such definitions describe nature (how and where infection occurs) and an engine is used to scan or locate and clean infected files. Given reproductive properties of viruses, amount of such infected files can be enormous and sometimes they are files with particular extensions. Regular domestic P.C. users should probably update their definitions weekly and there are anti –virus software manufacturers that will scan your machine for free (use your search engine) but it should be remembered that virus could already be in your machine at this stage. The program that you pay for can block them at all entry points and is nearest thing to ultimate protection.

Definitive protection requires you to connect to nothing, insert or install nothing, network with no one, and perhaps swabbing your machine with an industrial disinfectant. However, I would consider such measures to be excessive and no way to live your productive life.