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Corrupt office, pdf, and other general use files
From: Robert.Yung () L-3com com
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:12:04 -0400
List, hope you can help. It has become apparent that a user may have installed malware which has randomly gone through an entire drive and corrupted pdf, doc, xls, and other general use office files. When an attempt is made to open a corrupted file, Word (for example) will error out and say that the file is not readable. Question is, does anyone know of a tool that will traverse an entire directory structure and check files of commonly known formats and report back to say whether or not they are corrupt? I need a way to identify how widespread the problem is and see if there is a pattern to which files are corrupted. The tool does not need to fix the file, I just require a report. Thanks in advance!
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