Saturday 20 July 2013
How to remove shortcut virus from pendrive or memory card ?
Many a times you may have observed that a shortcut virus have crawled in your pendrive or memory card. All the files and folders in your USB disk are converted into shortcut icons and you are unable to find your orignal files. The pendrive may contain some important documents which you think are deleted from it which are not. In actual all the files in the pendrive become hidden to you. There is a tendency of everyone of formating that USB drive to remove that shortcut virus from it. In this article i will show you how to remove such type of shortcut virus without formating your pendrive. Just follow these simple steps :
Shortcut virus infected memory card :
Step 1 :
Insert that virus infected pendrive into your pc or laptop.
Step 2 :
Open the run command box from start or by just pressing WIN + R key together. In this type 'cmd'.
Step 3 :
In the command terminal type the following two commands :
(assuming your pendrive letter as k )
1) Type k:
2) Now type attrib -h -r -s /s /d k:\*.* and wait for a minute
(Edit the letter 'k' with your own drive location)
(assuming your pendrive letter as k )
1) Type k:
2) Now type attrib -h -r -s /s /d k:\*.* and wait for a minute
(Edit the letter 'k' with your own drive location)
Step 4 :
Now open the pendrive or memory card (mine is memory card )
Step 5 :
You have successfully removed shortcut virus from your USB drive !!
