Now a day’s Pen drives and Memory cards are the most used devices to
transfer data such as movies , songs , documents etc but often storage
devices are infected by shortcut virus. If you connect your infected Pen
drive to your system it will show files and folders having shortcuts.
And in case you open the shortcut fie or folder it would infect your whole system badly.
So here is a method to remove all shortcut-virus and recover the files.
NOTE: Do not open the shortcut file or folder otherwise the virus could infect your system.
Its recommended to format the Pen drive or Memory card. You have successfully remove shortcut virus from pendrive and recovered the infected files.
Follow:
So here is a method to remove all shortcut-virus and recover the files.
NOTE: Do not open the shortcut file or folder otherwise the virus could infect your system.
- Step 1: Connect your Pen drive or memory card.
- Step 2: Open command prompt. (Windows Button + R -->type cmd-->Press Enter)
- Step 3: Go to My computer and check out your Pen drive letter.
- Step 4:Back to Command-prompt and type "attrib -h -r -s /s /d j:\*.*" (Without quotes "). Don’t forget to replace the "j" with your Pen drive or memory card letter. Press Enter
- Step 5: Go back to your Pen drive or memory card. You would see both your original files and shortcut files.Delete all the shortcut and unknown files and copy your original files and folders to another drive.
Its recommended to format the Pen drive or Memory card. You have successfully remove shortcut virus from pendrive and recovered the infected files.
Follow:
- Keep your system up to date with the latest antivirus.
- Update your antivirus program at regular interval of time.
- Do not ever open the shortcut or virus file with the extension filename.lnk . it could badly harm your computer and could infect your other removable devices too.
- Before opening any removable drive ( pen drive or SD card ) perform a deep scan of the removable drive
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