How To Remove Shortcut Virus From Pen Drive Using CMD
What to do when our Pen drive or PC get caught by the Shortcut virus. We use Pen Drives often to Transfer data from One PC to another PC or Laptop. Some times we are annoyed to see our files changed into shortcut files. This post will help you to recover the files and remove the virus from your Pen Drive.
What is Shortcut Virus?
I have seen this problem in many PC's even if we have antivirus, when your Pen Drives got infected by some malware, they change your files into shortcuts with the original folder icons. Don’t worry, You can use simple steps to recover your files from your Pen Drive using CMD.
How to remove Shortcut virus?
Follow the below Steps to remove Shortcut Virus:
1. Go to Start -> Run -> cmd.
2. Go to your pen drive Directory.
3. Type del *.lnk (to delete all link files in the directory)
4. Type attrib -h -r -s /s /d e:*.*
5. And then press a gentle Enter.
Just follow the above given steps to remove, delete, wipe out or whatever the shortcut virus from your pen drive.