How to remove Shortcut virus :
Now a days, pen drives are the most commonly used storage medium. The reason for this is they are small and convenient to carry and they are re-writable. Sometime we insert those pen drives in different systems for copying data or some other purposes. There are times when our files and folders stored in our drives shows in shortcuts, whenever we tries to access them an error comes showing that the shortcut is not found. This is because of the virus named shortcut virus, whenever shortcut virus attacks our usb all files and folders in our pen drives shows in the form of shortcuts only and some people in a fear formats the drive in fear of shortcut virus and loses all the data. For this types of virus formatting is not necessary as we can easily remove the shortcut virus from the usb drive. There are few methods to remove shortcut virus and recover your data. The process i am going to tell doesn't need any software or antivirus or internet connection.
Method to remove shortcut virus:
Firstly plugin your shortcut virus infected pen drive to your computer, If auto-run opens just don't open click on cancel. Open my computer and note down the drive letter of your pen drive. Then open command prompt by pressing windows button + R and type in cmd in search box, a black window opens now open your drive by typing x: where x is the drive letter of your drive and hit enter. Then type the following command attrib -h -r -s/s /d x:\*.* and hit on enter . enter this command and wait for few seconds and check your drive your files and folders are recovered and you can easily access them.
Second method to remove short cut virus from usb. :
Use a good and updated antivirus in your p.c and scan for viruses and delete the shortcut virus. If you can't find your files even after deleting the shortcut virus go to files and folder setting and untick on hide empty drives and hide protected operating system files and folders and you are done .
If you have any problems and doubts comment here. if will try to solve the issue. Your valuable comments are always welcome.
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