Data loss due to computer crashes and viral infections are common. The solution is to take precautions against these common maladies to prevent extensive and permanent data loss. If proper precautions are undertaken, the average computer user can save more than 98% of his or her original saved data from any document file or program. These may include graphic tables to photos to emails and word documents. In recent years, however, data recovery companies have come up with external data recovery applications which aid the user in full data recovery.
Computer Crashes and Virus Attacks
A virus infection can be described as a failure or corruption of an integral computer component resulting in tremendous data loss. Its important to control the virus on discovery as viruses are known to spread rapidly infecting computers connected to the same server in a short time. Controlling virus infections is difficult usually users shut down the computer on virus attack and consequent rebooting of the computer does not remove the virus or weaken it in any way. It merely re-installs the virus in a different location within the computer. This means that though, initially, the virus attack may be focused tampering only one set of programs it can easily move to another location and damage the data existent there. Thus, virus attacks have the potential to destroy all unsaved data.
Hardware failures resulting in computer crashes are more common. It occurs when the computer stops functioning and is unable to respond to user input. Usually, computer crashes are heralded by error messages. In other words, the computer tells the user that it is about to crash. Another reason cited for the crash is the limited memory space built in computers. When there is information overload, a computer crashes. However, simple preventive measures of computer rebooting and redoing all your work fail in case of a major crash. This usually happens in large corporations where computer crashes are frequent. This means that entire chunks of data are lost ranging from database files, photos and email message files.
The Visual Shield Data Recovery System
This is an eternal data recovery program which is inputted after a crash or virus attack. It aims to save all lost data from all locations within the computer. Visual Shield basically operates in focused manner it first evaluates the problem i.e., the type of crash and virus attack. In a second step, it prevents the virus from spreading thus, placing the affected program or application in seclusion.
- It only works when inputted into the computer after rebooting
- It prevents viruses and crashes from diversifying containing the magnitude of data loss
- It intercepts crashes saving data and time
- It allows the user to save data from other programs after rebooting
- It quickly works to reduce the crash or virus intensity not allowing the affected program to terminate automatically
- Visual Shield will tell the user that a crash has occurred by way of a pop-up window
It analyses the crash providing the user with options about the course of action the user can completely shut the computer and turn the power switch off without saving any unaffected data and call data recovery experts or the user can save unaffected data and reboot the computer
Visual Shield is used to revive an affected program
In other words, it is possible to recover all of your lost data after a crash or virus attack. However, this takes time and money. Full data recovery is guaranteed by Ontrack and CRL Technolgies if:
Regular backup or saving of data is done by the user. There is no way of knowing when a computer will fail and when data will be lost. Thus, data can be safeguarded by the simple step of saving all data regularly. This measure is a twin-pronged guideline saving working data after every two minutes and periodic saving of all data and programs. Saving can be done either by backup of the data on electronic storage equipment or documenting it the traditional way. A third sure way of full data recovery lies in saving your data files on the Internet. Modern computers come with an inbuilt system of Automatic Save. This ensures that the data is saved on the hard disk and then also saved on the Internet. But this facility is functional only for data files. Computer forensics (or digital forensics) services can investigate any malicious data loss.
Web-based Email: It is recommended to immediately switch to a web-based email system in order to save email messages even during a crash or virus attack. In addition, it is advisable to save photos and other graphic online. There are many free and fee-based online sites such as GoogleDocs which store all photos and graphic data.