Best Antivirus for Windows 8 / Windows 7 for the year 2014

Recommended Paid Antivirus:

ESET Nod32 Antivirus: ESET NOD32 Antivirus delivers comprehensive antivirus protection. Independent test labs find it easy to use. It protects from malware by comparing suspect files to its known list of threats. It also examines files that seem threatening to see if they are dangerous even if they aren’t in the list of known threats yet. The software protects you from email threats and external media. If you switch to battery mode on a laptop, the software adjusts its behavior so that non-essential activities are curtailed until the laptop is plugged in. In case any malware penetrates the barriers and collapses a system, the product enables creation of a bootable disk or USB drive that will disinfect the PC and restore it to health.




Recommended Free Antivirus:
1. Avast Antivirus
2. Avira Antivirus Personal
3. Microsoft Security Essentials

Flash Drive/Memory Card files and folders gone due to virus attack. How to restore the files and folders?

Open Command Prompt (RUN> CMD.EXE) and type in “DIR X: /A /S” (replace X with the drive letter) Are the missing directories listed? If yes, that means all the files and folder are in hidden in their file attributes. The /A tells the directory command to display all objects, regardless of their attributes, and the /S tells the directory command to go through all the directories on the disk volume.

Now type “ATTRIB X:\*.* -H -R -S /S /D” , it should show the hidden folders and files. The -H, -R and -S options tell the attrib command to remove hidden, read-only and system attributes, while the /S tells it to go through all the directories and the /D to apply the changes to directories as well as files.