How to Remove Shortcut Virus From Pendrive?

By
Shubhransu Samal
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How to Remove Shortcut Virus From Pendrive / USB Drive ?

What is shortcut virus ?

The shortcut virus is a shared computer virus who can hide your files and replaces them with shortcuts with the same file name. When you click on the shortcuts, the virus replicates itself and further infects your drive. 

It have the ability to make shortcut of all your files When it connect to your computer, hard drive partition, after that you can’t access your actual data. Basically the shortcut virus usually enters your drive via running a .exe file that contained the virus or from  using a flash drive on multiple computers. Most of the time it found that virus are coming from network sharing also.

How to Remove Shortcut Virus From Pendrive USB Drive

To remove shortcut virus antivirus is not necessary

follow the simple steps to remove it.

Step-1. Connect your external hard drive to PC and right-click on “Start”, select “Search”.

Step-2. Type CMD in the Search box, right click on “Command Prompt” and run as administrator. 

Step-3. Type H: and hit “Enter”. Replace H: with the drive letter of your USB, pen drive, or HDD.

Step-4. Type del *.lnk and hit “Enter”. (L)

Step-5. Type attrib -s – r -h *.* /s /d /l and hit “Enter”. (L)

Note:

  • -s removes the “system file” status from all matching files and folders.
  • -r removes the “read-only” status from all matching files and folders.
  • -h removes the “hidden” status from all matching files and folders.
  • /s makes the command recursively apply to all files and folders in the current directory and all subdirectories, basically the entire device in this case.
  • /d makes the command apply to folders as well (typically attrib only handles on files).
  • *.* means all file names and folder names should be considered a match.

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