I'm new here so not totally sure if this is the right forum but oh well...
I recently got a virus on my computer a while back and it got bad enough to the point that I just decided to wipe it and reinstall the OS. I backed up my really important files to a flash drive, but I could only hold so much so I lost a good deal of data (mostly music). So now that my pc is up and running again and I have reaquired my music I find that hidden in certain folders of my computer are the music and other files I thought were long lost to the virus and memory wipe.
So what I would like to know is: Just how did these files remain on my computer after supposedly erradicating everything on it?
P.S. - I also experienced this little anomally on an older pc of mine under similar circumstances a few years back.
P.S. again - I also noticed that while my old music was there there were also other songs (usually from the same album) that I had never had before.
I recently got a virus on my computer a while back and it got bad enough to the point that I just decided to wipe it and reinstall the OS. I backed up my really important files to a flash drive, but I could only hold so much so I lost a good deal of data (mostly music). So now that my pc is up and running again and I have reaquired my music I find that hidden in certain folders of my computer are the music and other files I thought were long lost to the virus and memory wipe.
So what I would like to know is: Just how did these files remain on my computer after supposedly erradicating everything on it?
P.S. - I also experienced this little anomally on an older pc of mine under similar circumstances a few years back.
P.S. again - I also noticed that while my old music was there there were also other songs (usually from the same album) that I had never had before.