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Just did some research and found out that i installed a trojan virus called "Microsoft Word OS X Web install" i guess my question now is whether or not my files are still retrievable?? will a data recovery service be able to retreive my deleted data?? is there hope?? please people help out a...

I'm on a powerbook g4 mac os 9. i carelessly downloaded what i thought was a compressed microsoft word application file from (file sharing program). the minute i decompressed it and opened the file. my computer froze. i forced quit and opened it again. this time i saw files on my harddrive...