Tuesday, March 30, 2010

BKF File Corruption Post Malware Attack

In modern times, one of the most common causes for file corruption is 'malware attack'. A malware contains computer viruses, dishonest adware, trojans, malicious software, worms, and spyware. In most cases, a malware gets installed in your system when you download file(s) from the Internet or connect a malware-infected storage media. Like any other file, BKF (Microsoft Backup) file can also get corrupted due to a malware attack. In such cases, the file either displays information in an unreadable format or does not open at all. To overcome such cases of BKF file corruption due to malware attack, you need to restore data from a valid backup. However, in case of no backup availability or backup falling short of restoring the required BKF file, you will need to repair the corrupted BKF file using a commercial Repair BKF file application.

To illustrate the above situation, consider a realistic scenario wherein you open your BKF file. However, when the file opens and you try to access the data, you view that the file contains data that is not readable (contains garbled characters). The file opens with same data format each time you try to open it.

Cause:
The root cause for the data in unreadable format is BKF file corruption due to malware (klez.e) attack.

Resolution:
To overcome BKF file corruption, you need to follow the below steps:
1.Run complete anti-virus scan on your system.
2.If the file remains in the same state even after running the anti-virus, then you will need to use a valid backup of the BKF file and perform restoration.
3.But in case no backup of BKF file is available, then you will need to opt for a third-party BKF File Repair tool. Such BKF recovery tools perform complete scanning of the affected file and repair it to maximum level. These tools do not modify or overwrite the original BKF file, making the repair process absolutely safe and risk-free. Furthermore, these tools are easy to understand and do not require any former technical understanding to perform repair.

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