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 has Shortcut virus remover cmd (command) for USB pendrive in PC. Easy steps to remove ” Shortcut Virus ” from USB Pendrive and also from Pc.
What is Shortcut Virus?
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 have Shortcut virus remover command below to remove these stinky shortcut viruses. Follow the below Steps to remove Shortcut Virus:
- After plug in your virus affected drive, just press Win key + R to open Run box and type “cmd” and press Enter key. (Without double quotes)
- In the opened command prompt, open your drive by enter your drive letter as shown in the below figure. For example, if your drive letter is enter g: and press Enter. (To find your drive letter just open “My Computer” and check your drive icon)
- Now type “del *.lnk” and hit Enter.(without double quotes)
- Finally type the below command and hit Enter. (without double quotes)
“attrib -s -r -h *.* /s /d /l”
That’s it, just wait some seconds. Then open and check your drive. Your folders will be retrieved. I hope this is useful for you. If any doubt, comment below. Share with your friends.
NOTE: This will definitely recover all the folders, but it wont completely remove all the virus, better you scan the drive with an antivirus.
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