Remove Shortcut Virus

 

Shortcut Virus

How to remove Shortcut virus?” is the Question when our pendrive or Pc get caught by the Shortcut virus. We use Pendrives often and when we plug in our pen drive, memory cards or even mobile phone through USB cable into our windows PC USB port sometimes we are annoyed to see our files changed into shortcut files, even this shortcut virus affects PC Hard disks.  This post solves you ” How to remove Shortcut virus using cmd (command) for USB pendrive in PC “. Easy steps to remove ” Shortcut Virus ” from USB Pendrive and also from Pc

I have seen this problem in PC having antivirus too, when your Pen drive, PC, Hard Disk, Memory cards or mobile phone got infected by some anonymous malware, they change your files into shortcuts with the original folder icons. Just don’t worry, We will clarify you with ” How to remove Shortcut Virus? ” From your Pendrive or Windows PC using cmd.

Follow the below Steps to remove Shortcut Virus:

• Go to Start -> Run -> cmd.
• Go to your pen drive, memory cards or mobile phone directory.
• Type del *.lnk (to delete all link files in the directory)
• Type attrib -h -r -s /s /d e:*.*
• Replace e with your drive letter.
• And then press a gentle Enter.

 

    Note : After when you got your files, just copy your files somewhere in your PC and format your drive and then copy again your files to the drive. Only then your shortcut virus will get off from your PC…!

 WAY TO RECOVER THE SHORTCUT VIRUS AFFECTED FILES USING ” WINRAR “

     You can recover your files through Winrar.

•  Open WINRAR Application.
•  Navigate to your Pendrive location or PC Folder location.
•  Copy Files and Paste where you want.
•  Format your Pendrive.