A little background - I installed a PCIe USB 3 card into my HP N40L Proliant microserver, started the PC but Windows wouldn't start, two raided drives became unraided, 3TB HDD was unreadable - and it wasn't even reading as 2.2TB, it just had no drive letter! So I reinstalled windows, reinitialised the 3TB, and started recovery using the PhotoRec part of Test Disk because I'm cheap...
It's been going for about 23 hours now, and overnight AVG caught threats like Crypt2.BDIA, Downloader.zlob.BKSF, Generic6 etc, in a number of recovered files like f3733950006.exe and f47324327.dll.
At the moment they're blocked, the only option is to remove. I want to believe the antivirus is just looking at these fragments of data and saying, better safe than sorry, lets flash some alarms at our beloved user.
Is this is at all likely?
Shall I just remove the threats?
My instinct is to leave the AVG window open till after the recovery finishes in 8 hours, then run a scan, maybe install Avast, pause AVG, and run a scan with Avast.
Or perhaps there's no harm in removing the threats, since that's my only option in the AVG dialogue box?
Not really sure at all, hence the hasty sign up to this site, and too long message.
Any help appreciated!
(edit) the other thing is, the recovery tool is finding a huge amount of types of files that weren't on there, like 10,000 exe files. and 230,000 txt files, which makes me think it would be easy for AVG to get confused.
Thanks again!
It's been going for about 23 hours now, and overnight AVG caught threats like Crypt2.BDIA, Downloader.zlob.BKSF, Generic6 etc, in a number of recovered files like f3733950006.exe and f47324327.dll.
At the moment they're blocked, the only option is to remove. I want to believe the antivirus is just looking at these fragments of data and saying, better safe than sorry, lets flash some alarms at our beloved user.
Is this is at all likely?
Shall I just remove the threats?
My instinct is to leave the AVG window open till after the recovery finishes in 8 hours, then run a scan, maybe install Avast, pause AVG, and run a scan with Avast.
Or perhaps there's no harm in removing the threats, since that's my only option in the AVG dialogue box?
Not really sure at all, hence the hasty sign up to this site, and too long message.
Any help appreciated!
(edit) the other thing is, the recovery tool is finding a huge amount of types of files that weren't on there, like 10,000 exe files. and 230,000 txt files, which makes me think it would be easy for AVG to get confused.
Thanks again!
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