Corrupt Jpgs

Good Morning -

I'm working on a friend's computer that was badly infected with a variety of malwares. I'm currently getting help from the malware forum - and won't do anything until that process is done...of course...but here's the thing: most of their jpg's were corrupted in some way by the bad guys (the word and excel files too - but that's another matter). They were all modified on one day at the same time and voila, they can't be opened.

For the jpg's I either get 'no preview available' on 'incorrect jpg header' (well, something like that...I don't remember exactly).

I realize that it is probably a lost cause - but does anyone know of a utility or process that I could go through to recover/repair the images...many family photos are involved...and of course there is no backup

thanks in advance!

EDIT:Moved to more appropriate forum

Edited by garmanma, 26 April 2009 - 08:25 AM.

Please mention this to extremeboy while he is helping you in HJT
After you're clean and if he cannot help you get it fixed, then post back here

Hello, garmanma

I am back. Extremeboy cleaned up the computer just fine - and I am thrilled about that. I did discuss the file corruption issue w/ him - he offered four utilities for me to try but really said that I should come back to you.

Kindly check towards the bottom of my Vundo Blues post http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/218378/vundo-blues/
- his last post before the closing - to see the tools.

I tried them - the two jpeg repair did not think that the jpg was a jpg
One of the Word repair utilities did not think that the Word doc was a Word doc and the other one thought that it repaired it - but it returned similar gibberish to what I started out with.

Is there any hope?

rascal