How to Retrieve Photos after Virus Attack?

Hi, today morning, I connected my camera to the laptop and went onto the gallery to transfer photos. Upon completion, I found all the images came up as question mark symbol indicating that images were no longer there. With a hope, I downloaded and run anti-virus program to drive but it removed virus with no success in photo recovery. How can I get these pictures back after virus attack? Please help me!

Well, virus attack is just like a nightmare for all computer users that can be easily encountered if sufficient protection is not applied to the devices. Once viruses get entered in your device, they would trouble you by hiding photos and other data. In addition, they can have tendency to erase pictures from your computer, digital camera or any other storage device. Although, viruses can take you away from your favorite pictures but not forever if right action is taken at the right time. Yes, photos that are no more accessible on your system, are still recoverable. Because there are chances for you to get back all photos visible and in healthy state and it’s all is possible with the aid of a reliable picture recovery app that should have ability to restore hidden or erased photos after the virus attack.

How this photo recovery software works?

Yodot Photo Recovery has great potential to perform rigorous scan of virus affected storage drive and restores all hidden, missing or erased pictures and other media files. This software help you in recovering images with all popular file formats like JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIF, TIFF, SID, QTM, WMF, WPG, PSD, AMFF, PCD, PBM etc. Also this utility can retrieve raw images such as NEF, CR2, CRW, ORF, MRW, 3FR, RAW, PEF, DNG, KDC, RAF, DCR, ARW, RAF, etc that are produced by various professional DSLR/SLR cameras and now missing or deleted due to viruses. You can utilize this tool to retrieve photos deleted by virus or after the anti-virus scanning. With the aid of this application, you can restore images, videos and music after virus attacks on memory cards, pen drives, iPods, internal hard drives, external hard disks, SSD and other storage devices. It is highly compatible to work with all commonly used Windows systems such as Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Server 2003 and 2008 OS version.

Necessary steps to recover images after virus attack!

  • Download Yodot Photo Recovery program to your Windows computer and execute the setup to complete the installation operation
  • Now launch the software and go ahead with the instructions present on the screen
  • On the main wizard, select either “Deleted Photo Recovery” or “Lost Photo Recovery” option based upon the photo loss situation occurred after virus attack
  • The recovery tool shows a list of all the drives and partitions associated with your Windows system
  • Select the drive/partition containing photos and click on “Next” button
  • Now the application deeply scans the selected drive or partition and shows all the photos from it
  • Mark to select image file formats, which you want to save
  • Preview the restored photo files before saving them with the help of “Preview” option
  • At last, save the recovered photos to your desired destination location on computer hard drive or other removable storage devices but not to the same drive that has been scanned

Important Suggestions!

  • Always have an updated and powerful anti-virus program in your computer to evade photo loss due to virus attack
  • Backup your important pictures by copying them to any safe and virus protected storage drive
  • If photos are deleted or missing due to viruses, don’t format the drive and also don’t add new files to that drive

Other Popular Software

Yodot Photo Recovery (Windows)

Recover and restore deleted photos lost from your digital camera memory card or the images from your Windows PC. The software can recover all popular image types including popular audio and video files.

Yodot Mac File Recovery

The only undelete application for Mac that can recover deleted files from HFS+, HFSX partitions on Mac. The software also has the ability to recover lost files using RAW signature method.