Tuesday, March 15, 2011

BKF file decomposition post Virus attack

A computer virus is an infectious agent that can replicate inside the network file system or file system and exploits secured vulnerabilities which may harm the data saved on the hard drive. A virus spreads itself automatically through networks and competent enough to delete or corrupt any file, even if it is backup file. In case, If backup file gets corrupt then it becomes very difficult for user to access the data which was saved in that file. A corrupted BKF file can be identified easily as corrupt file shows some weird characters instead of original data at the time of opening the same file. In such situations, If you wish to access the data saved in BKF file, you need to restore the data from another backup. Since backup of all the data is saved in BKF file so there is least probability to have another backup of same file. In such cases, you must use a third party BKF repair software.

Few most common viruses that corrupt your BKF files are Scores, Rabbit, ILOVEYOU, Egg, INIT1984. All virus owns few limitations to destroy BKF file. When your backup file is corrupt you may find:

Either,
The file doesn't allow to display the data at all.
Or,
The file will be displayed with decrypted characters

To abstain BKF files from being affected by a virus attack, you should always follow the following corrective measures:

Always keep a updated anti-virus software in your system.
Before you attach a hardware to your system, check properly whether the file is virus free
Always scan the files which are intended to be downloaded from Internet.

However, if the BKF file is already corrupted, then you must go for third party BKF Repair software to repair corrupt BKF file.

A Backup repair tool uses such an advanced scanning algorithm which thoroughly scans the corrupt BKF file and saves the recoverable file at user-specified location. The file repair tool is just do-it- yourself tool that makes it easily accessible without any before handed technical knowledge. This tool is completely non-destructive and does not harm the original data.

Stellar Phoenix BKF Repair is a reliable BKF file repair software that repairs corrupt BKF files. Besides repairing BKF files created in Windows XP, 2000 , NTBackup utilities, 2003, the BKF repair utility also repairs files developed using Backup Exec application by Symantec and VERITAS. And is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000.

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