VIR Converter

Extract text from VIR files

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Drop or upload your .VIR file

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How to extract text from your VIR file

Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your VIR file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert VIR to another file type

To convert your VIR file to another format, you need Norton AntiVirus or other System software.

VIR to TMP
VIR to TEMP
VIR to CACHE
VIR to LOG
VIR to BAK
VIR to OLD
VIR to NEW
VIR to PART
VIR to DOWNLOAD
VIR to CRDOWNLOAD
VIR to LOCK
VIR to PID

Convert a file to VIR

To convert other file formats to the "Quarantined Executable" file type, you need software like Norton AntiVirus or a similar tool.

DEVICE to VIR
CACHE to VIR
SOCK to VIR
SYMLINK to VIR
PID to VIR
MOUNT to VIR
FIFO to VIR
LOG to VIR
PIPE to VIR
TMP to VIR
JUNCTION to VIR
TEMP to VIR

About VIR files

A .VIR file is most commonly a Virus-Infected File that has been neutralized by antivirus software, historically associated with Norton AntiVirus. The system renames the original file (often an EXE, COM, or LNK) to .VIR to prevent the operating system from accidentally executing the malicious code. The primary constraint here is intentional inaccessibility; the file is "jailed" to protect your computer. Users often encounter friction when trying to recover a false positive - a legitimate file mistakenly flagged and locked away.

However, a .VIR file might also be a Virtual Volume created by legacy versions of Symantec Ghost (formerly Norton Ghost). These are proprietary disk images used for backups. The challenge with Ghost files is their obsolescence; modern virtualization tools rarely support this specific format natively.

Conversion Recommendations:

For Quarantined Files: Realistically, you do not "convert" these in the traditional sense. You must scan them, verify they are false positives, and manually rename them back to their original extension (e.g., DOCX or EXE) to use them.
For Ghost Volumes: The goal is data extraction. Use legacy tools like Ghost Explorer to extract files, then "convert" the recovered data by archiving it into standard formats like ZIP or 7Z for future-proof storage.

Convert.Guru analyzes your VIR file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted VER, KDC, 264 and BPS files.

The VIR Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our VIR converter.