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I have been handed a machine to 'fix' which has a whole bunch of virus laden word docs. It has McAfee on it which has found and quarantined these files. According to the documentation, "Quarantine" means to encrypt and move the files to another location. McAfee claims it cannot clean the files, and as such I'm left with a directory full of "important documents" which are unreadable.
My plan is to:
1. Decrypt the files.
2. Open each in Word (it's Word 2K so I don't think wordpad will look at
them)
3. Save as RTF
4. Delete original Word docs
5. Scan & clean machine.
Stumbling block 1: So how does one decrypt these files?
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Al.