HELP!! About 90% of all the jpg files in my computer turned into *.exe files. I am very sure that this is a virus. Days later the initial infection happened, some of my doc files turned into *scr files. Later, even Mozilla Firefox now seems to be infected, as it acts very differently now. MY main concern is the recovery of the jpg and doc files. They are very important to me. I am an aspiring graphic designer and photographer. It is hard to imagine how I would start again from scratch without those files. I have tried renaming the files, but the dialog box keeps on telling that the file "is currently being used by other programs". I have tried to search for solutions over the net and it seems that I can't find any. I will really really appreciate if I would be able to learn how to recover the infected files, and save them safely. Upon that, I am very willing to format my PC to prevent all of these. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

How about putting all the jpgs into a folder and doing a virus scan on the folder? then if they are clear, burn them onto a cd or dvd. Once on a cd or dvd, you can load them onto another PC and try re-naming them back to jpgs. Or better yet, save them onto a thumb drive and then try renaming them. Some HELP in posting on Computing.net plus free progs and instructions Cheers