Re: Corrupt office, pdf, and other general use files

["Razi Shaban" <razishaban () gmail com>]

Are you certain that the files are corrupted?
There are several other possible factors that could cause Word to
report that a file is unreadable.

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Razi

On 3/24/08, Robert.Yung () l-3com com <Robert.Yung () l-3com com> wrote:
> 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!