How do you retrieve files deleted by the blue screen of death virus?

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As far as I know, this is impossible. Blue Screen of Death was loaded onto my school's computers a few years ago and the entire lot had to be reformatted. Huge amounts of data was lost and it set the reporting back months. This was back in 2004 when most of the school computers were running Windows 2000 Professional. Blue Screen of Death has probably been updated since then but it would likely have made it more difficult to repair data, not less difficult.

If you take your computer to a technician, you may have some chance of salvaging at least part of the data. Whether or not you succeed, you should get a reliable antivirus program and update it constantly. Also beware of email virus scams - the main one at the moment is disguised as an e-card, free games site, graphics site, or something to attract children, and when clicked on runs a script that infects your computer with a nasty worm.

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