Shortcut Virus which is a new modern virus, it automatically comes in your
PC/USB/SD card and convert all your folders or files into a shortcut. Sometime
this virus also make your folders or files invisible. This Shortcut virus
problem is not removable by some anti-virus programs, when you scan your
Shortcut virus infected storage with anti-virus program they give “No threat
detected” buy when you check your PC/USB/SD it still there.
What
are you going to do if you didn’t know how to remove this virus? Most of people they are going to format the
infected storage, so if you are helplessness to format your storage then don’t
do this a gain, because it not the good solution.
How you get affect
by this shortcut virus? This
virus is cause from internet, USB, software etc. Sometime when you connect your
pen drive to other computer for exchanging data and you don’t know that
computer affected by shortcut virus, so when you connect those pen drive to
your computer it automatically infect your computer also.
How to
remove shortcut virus from your USB, Pen drive, SD card? For remove this shortcut virus it actually not
really hard, as I try to researched I have found the ways to fix this problem
is by using CMD.
Remove
shortcut virus by using CMD. This
way really work and easy, first you Open Command prompt as
Administrator (For open CMD as Administrator, go to Search for “CMD” and then Right click to CMD
and Select “Run as Administrator” or right click over Start button and select “command prompt
(Admin) “).
After
you run CMD as Administrator it should appear like this picture
Next step you need to
connect you USB storage, Pen drive, SD card to your computer. Now go to your
CMD and type: attrib -h -r -s /s /d H:\*.*
(H is Your USB drive letter) you can check your drive letter from
My computer and then type it. For ex, if your drive letter is “I” then the
command is like: ” attrib -h -r -s /s /d I:\*.* “).
Wait
until the command process completes. Now all your Shortcut files will convert
to normal files. So delete unknown files from your storage. If possible after
you remove your shortcut virus from your storage, you should copy all your data
from your storage to your computer, and format your USB storage. Then copy your
data to your USB storage back.
To protect your computer
I recommend you to use anti-virus software. There are a lot but now I using MSE
(Microsoft Security Essentials). MSE protect your computer against virus very
well and also free for installation.
