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Comment on Recovering your AutoCAD dwg file from MUST re_cover! virus attack, an acad.vlx virus variant by Hassan

Hassan — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:26:15 +0000

Hello
i have a problem finding the acad.vlx file

Comment on Recovering your AutoCAD dwg file from MUST re_cover! virus attack, an acad.vlx virus variant by Robbie

Robbie — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:17:07 +0000

thanks man!

Comment on Recovering your AutoCAD dwg file from MUST re_cover! virus attack, an acad.vlx virus variant by salimraj

salimraj — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:42:06 +0000

Thankfull to u my friend.once again i appreciate u for the the great work

Comment on Recovering your AutoCAD dwg file from MUST re_cover! virus attack, an acad.vlx virus variant by mansoor

mansoor — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:19:49 +0000

you are excellent man, thanks a lot.

Comment on Recovering your AutoCAD dwg file from MUST re_cover! virus attack, an acad.vlx virus variant by Liben Alex

Liben Alex — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:46:01 +0000

Thank You,
Great Post
Alex

Comment on Recovering your AutoCAD dwg file from MUST re_cover! virus attack, an acad.vlx virus variant by Rami

Rami — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:24:46 +0000

Very Smart, Thank you Amer. We had a problem with this “thing” and i really thank you for solving this issue.
But i have to admit that the guy behing this virus is a pretty smart guy also hehe

Comment on Recovering your AutoCAD dwg file from MUST re_cover! virus attack, an acad.vlx virus variant by Amer Kachmar

Amer Kachmar — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:04:13 +0000

@Felicia

If your file was showing MUST re_cover! text and was not recovered to show the drawings again then even if you put the file on a clean computer that has never been subject to the virus, it will still show the MUST re_cover! text.

After you have followed the instructions on the AutoDesk site, and when you opened a file did you see a process of file conversion by the virus? (it means, did you see a percentage of conversion as illustrated in the figures?). Also, before the virus corrupts the file, you will see the drawings as usual and then a conversion process (percentage…) and then it will show the MUST re_cover! text.

So, if you have seen the MUST re_cover! text directly when you opened the file, then you cannot assume that the virus was not cleaned from your computer.

An easy way to test and see if you have applied the AutoDesk instructions correctly, is to see if the acad.vlx file disappears when you double-click any file in the same directory of the acad.vlx file (make sure that you have a backup copy of the file before doing so).

Comment on Recovering your AutoCAD dwg file from MUST re_cover! virus attack, an acad.vlx virus variant by Felicia

Felicia — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:46:38 +0000

i tried to clean the vlx virus using the autocad link u gave.
i did everything the instruction said, but the virus is still there..

is there anyway to do this?

Comment on Recovering your AutoCAD dwg file from MUST re_cover! virus attack, an acad.vlx virus variant by VIRAJ

VIRAJ — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:17:58 +0000

very thankfull to u my friend.once again i appreciate u for the the great work

Comment on Recovering your AutoCAD dwg file from MUST re_cover! virus attack, an acad.vlx virus variant by Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:08:28 +0000

Amer,

Great post!

You saved me a lot of time on how to recover our cadd files.