undo format?

[The Torrent]

my mate formated his hard drive in disk management by accident.

 

is it possible to undo it for free? i see loads of software u have to pay for

[phoon]

9 minutes ago, The Torrent said:

my mate formated his hard drive in disk management by accident.

 

is it possible to undo it for free? i see loads of software u have to pay for

Yeah Ive been there bud. Not cool. You should look into this article and find the best software you're comfortable with. Good luck  

 

https://www.lifewire.com/free-data-recovery-software-tools-2622893

[aDoomGuy]

It's not possible to undo it but he can try the free version of Recuva and see what it can salvage.

 

https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva

[The Torrent]

2 minutes ago, aDoomGuy said:

It's not possible to undo it but he can try the free version of Recuva and see what it can salvage.

 

https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva

i thought ccleaner was a virus?

or at least according to malwarebytes

[aDoomGuy]

Just now, The Torrent said:

i thought ccleaner was a virus?

or at least according to malwarebytes

Did I say Ccleaner? I said Recuva, did I not? If you think it is malware then don't use it.

[The Torrent]

11 hours ago, aDoomGuy said:

Did I say Ccleaner? I said Recuva, did I not? If you think it is malware then don't use it.

Recuva is made by ccleaner. I’m asking you if what I’m saying is correct, as as far as I was aware ccleaner was deemed malware a while ago.

[aDoomGuy]

4 hours ago, The Torrent said:

Recuva is made by ccleaner. I’m asking you if what I’m saying is correct, as as far as I was aware ccleaner was deemed malware a while ago.

It was not deemed as malware, as far as I remember there was discovered malware and personally I think it has been fixed since then. I tried downloading and installing it to scan it with Bitdefender and it came up clean.

It would take hours and hours to scan my 6 TB system but I scanned the download file and the installation folder.

 

Kaspersky writes on the situation.

 

Quote

 

However, in September 2017, CCleaner malware was discovered. Hackers took the legitimate program and inserted malicious code that was designed to steal data from users. They turned a tool meant to scrub your computer clean of lurking malware into a serious threat to sensitive and personal information.

 

 

CCleaner's parent company, Avast Piriform, found the malware on September 12, 2017, and immediately took steps to remediate the problem. Initially, the company believed it was confined to the above versions running on a 32-bit Windows systems and that downloading upgraded versions of the program would solve the problem. It's believed more than 2 million users were infected.

Unfortunately, the company soon discovered the malware infection was more severe than originally believed. A second stage payload was discovered by Cisco Talos. This payload targeted approximately 20 of the largest tech companies, including Google, Microsoft, Cisco, and Intel, and infected 40 computers.

 

So yeah, it was only CCleaner that was infected and it was not the developers intention to do so. It has since been removed and Bitdefender reported no problems in the Recuva installer or the install folder.