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28-Jul-2008, 12:16 AM #1
Question Solved: Chinese anti-virus pickle!
I am having a very BAD time with electronics. Who knew that mp3 players broke at altitude of 5000m? and that sand can kill cameras... pffft. Any way, I have an unrelated INTERESTING problem....

I am backpacking in china, I plug my camera and mp3 player into many a rundown Chinese hostel computer to backup and what not.

My camera picked up a virus from one such PC without my knowledge until I plugged it into the next useless Chinese PC. Due to the nature of the virus (which seemed to turn the root directory into a executable file) everything on my camera memory card got quarantined and the Chinese anti-virus didn't have a restore function. I did get a Chinese person to go through every setting in the anti-virus to check.

I couldn't find the quarantine folder to manually try and restore my pictures... So after battling with this Chinese PC for ages I installed some file/photo recovery software... 8 million years later I discovered it is not possible to use recovery software to recover files that haven't actually been deleted... GRR
So in desperation I light formatted the memory card and recovered most of my pictures a few were corrupted but at this point I was desperate...

I then plugged my mp3 player in to make a copy of my recovered files... The anti-virus promptly quarantined my whole mp3 player file structure... Including my main photo backup...

In my defense it was very late at this point and I had been suffering with all sorts of stomach problems... but yes... I am an idiot.

I know everything is still on the mp3 player because the firmware still plays the music. Any ideas on how I can view these files without the origional anti-virus software or any rash formatting?

Excuse the long winded story... It is therapeutic to outlet my IT woes!

My mp3 player is a sony NW-A3000

Thanks in advance!!!
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28-Jul-2008, 09:09 AM #2
Plug your mp3 player into a pc running linux and access the files that way. You shouldn't have a problem accessing your files and should be able to copy them onto a pendrive or cd. Let me know how u get on.
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28-Jul-2008, 03:00 PM #3
I guess you could make a Linux Live CD by using one of the many images on the web...

What AV is it?
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31-Jul-2008, 02:15 AM #4
Thanks! I figured as much but wondered if anyone could invoke some sort of techy dark arts to fix it so I can have new music before my trip is over... oh well Maybe I will just buy a ****** mp3 player in china... I got some fake Sennheiser earphones for like 3pounds that work like a dream

Am afraid I have no idea what the anti-virus is as it was in chinese and am a few days travel from the pc that did it anyway. Huge sigh .

Ta!
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