Some school systems delete files on logout if you don't put the files on the server as the administration told you to.
As systems age, people may forget about these rules and then you wonder.
You also may not have a virus, but one of the Nachi or MS-Blaster worms. These are not stopped by an Anti-Virus and I'll leave you to use http://www.google.com to learn why.
Bob
Hi. I'm troubleshooting my school's Windows 2000 Professional computer. They don't know why, but they just lost their documents inside their computer. Other things are okay: programmes still start well, Windows 2000 still boot well etc.
The only thing I notice that day when I checked their computer is, after the Login prompt, Windows 2000 said Cannot load Administrator profile. However, when I go back again today, the same message does not appear anymore.
I can't find any documents in the Administrator.bak folder. About backups, no, there is no hope for that, because they don't do backups.
Is there any last solutions that I can try before I declare the documents dead? Am I right also, to assume that this has nothing to do with viruses?

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