In modern era, computers have become the need of everyone. From small home assignments to big enterprise projects, computer is used everywhere. You may use computer to store your personal as well as professional information, thinking that its safe to save data on computer hard drive. But the fact is, computer may fail at any point of time and you may come across critical data loss situations. In addition to other data loss reasons, viruses are proving to be a big threat for your data. At this point, you need to opt for data recovery software to get your valuable data back.
The viruses are malicious programs, which infect your computer operating system, file system, and data files. They may enter your computer through network, Internet, or removable storage media and damage your computer. Although, the viruses are turning out to be extremely complex, but preventing them from infecting your system is quite simple. Use an updated and powerful anti-virus application, regularly install security updates, and turn on the Firewall.
In addition to that, there are a few simple and common procedures that you should use, whether at home or in organizational computing environment. Do not open the file whose sender or the origins are unknown. Download files only from reliable and trusted resources. The executable files may contain viruses and affect your system.
Today, an entire new wave of the viruses have been invented on the unsuspecting users as software vendors developed rich-featured new applications without thinking how vulnerable they might be to viruses. Now, even the email messages may contain viruses that spread at the lightning speed. Viruses could delete data, alter file names, and even damage system data structures.
If you have not take proper precautions and system failure occurs, situations may become worse. In such circumstances, backup may help you to restore data. If the backup is not updated or its damaged, data recovery is required to retrieve lost data.
Recovery, in case of virus infection and other logical failure situations, is possible through data recovery software. The applications use high-end scanning algorithms to methodically scan the damaged hard drive and extract all lost, missing, and inaccessible data from it. They have rich graphical user interface and thus let you perform Do It Yourself Data Recovery.
Stellar Information Systems Limited is the leading provider of superior recovery applications for absolute recovery in all data loss situations. The applications are read-only in nature and thus do not alter or overwrite original data. They are available for Windows, Mac OS X, UNIX, Linux, and Novell operating systems.