Spy Sweeper

Spy Sweeper

by sem Dec 11, 2005 11:19PM PST

I was deleting an IE favorite this morning. The Spy Sweeper shield popped up and I accidentally deleted all my favorites. I tried system restore, but that didn?t bring them back.
Is there a way to reverse the deleted favorites?

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Yep, Import Your Backed Up Favorites?

by Grif Thomas Former Forum moderator Dec 12, 2005 2:56AM PST

Sem,

Since it's really easy to save a copy of your Internet Explorer "Favorites" to a file,(While IE is open, click on "File", then "Import and Export", then "Next", then select "Export Favorites", then follow the prompts to save the "Bookmark.htm" file to your "My Documents' folder, then make a hard copy backup of the file..), you should easily be able to "Import" them back into Internet Explorer.

Hope this helps.

Grif

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favorites

by sem Dec 12, 2005 6:18AM PST

Grif, Thanks - I'll do this net time. Any idea how to get my deleted favorites back? BTY - I checked the recycled bin and they're not there.

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Oh I See, You DIDN'T Make A Backup...

by Grif Thomas Former Forum moderator Dec 12, 2005 7:46AM PST

Lessons are sometimes learned hard..

If you used Spy Sweeper to make the changes, then there should be an option to "restore" or "recover" the deletions it's made. Open Spy Sweeper and hunt for such an option.

If that doesn't get it done, see if you've actually got some of those favorites anyway. Since you haven't given us any information about your computer in this thread, I'll assume you're using the Inspiron Windows XP SP2 machine you've posted about elsewhere, so...RIGHT click on Start, choose "Explore" from the menu. When the Explorer window loads, open each folder and follow the path to the C\Documents and Settings\Yourusername\Favorites. Open the Favorites folder and see if there are any links inside. If you're lucky, they're be there but you may need to add them back individually by opening each link.

Hope this helps.

Grif

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Not sure how Spysweeper plays into this?

by steve11375 Dec 12, 2005 6:34AM PST

Hi Sem,

First, are you sure all your IE favorites are really deleted? In an open browser window click on VIEW-EXPLORER BAR, then make sure Favorites is checked.

If that is true, then you mentioned Spysweeper (which I use) has a guard to ask if things can ADD/REMOVE sites from your favorites, it's the IE Favorites Shield of Spysweeper and if you were removing a single favorites entry, you should have gotten a notification from Spysweeper that something (in this case you) were trying to delete a single favorites entry. You can only say yes or no, if you say yes, the IE favorites entry goes to the recycle bin or if you say NO the change doesn't happen. This would NEVER do something to your entire favorites list normally.

Let us know if you have any other info, we're ALL here to help & learn.

Steve

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IE Shields

by sem Dec 12, 2005 11:23PM PST

Steve,
Yes, favorites is checked and I did delete them.

That is what happened. The shield came up when i deleted one of the favorites and listed all sites in my favorites folder. I thought the shield was asking if I wanted to save the list so I checked all (I didn't read the instructions very well). The kicker is they are not in my recycle bin.

I've got a request in on the Webroot site to see if they can be recovered, but at this point it's not looking good.

Thanks for all the help!

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