Encrypted file holocaust
From: Facing total disaster (pristine@asia.com)
Date: 12/19/02
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From: "Facing total disaster" <pristine@asia.com> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 00:37:25 -0800
I can no longer any files that had been encrypted using
Windows XP professional, even though the username has not
changed. It is a shared machine to which four users have
administrative access. At least one of these users is a
moron.
It could well be me. In fact, I did not even know the
files were being encrypted, until I noticed that files
older than a certain date in specific folders would no
longer open, and that these filenames were in green text.
The date nearly corresponds with a system reinstall --
but not exactly. In the folders I use most, nothing after
the reinstall date was encrypted at all. But in the few
folders that my wife and I share under the same username,
the files are encrypted, even after the reinstall date,
and they can no longer be accessed. The drive was not
reformatted for the reinstall.
So: has some all-important key or certificate been
deleted? If so, where would I look for it?
Please help.
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