Is your Pendrive / SD card / Hard-disk showing unwanted short-cut files which appears again and again even after deleting them?
You may have seen a many Antivirus who remove Computer virus from your computer, but this time we are talking about new modern virus called Shortcut virus who create short-cut files automatically in your USB Pendrive / SD card / Hard-disk. This virus may also invisible your all contents. This Short-cut virus cannot be detected or can't be removed by any Antivirus.
When you scan your devices, Antivirus will show "No Threat Found" in your devices but the Short-cut files will be there. Some people format the devices because they don't know how to remove the virus from your USB Pendrive / SD card / Hard-disk, but this is not a solution. If you don't wanna format your devices but you wan't to remove your Short-cut virus then there are two ways to remove Shortcut virus first is using CMD and second is using Software Tools.
How Short-cut virus is infected your devices ?
Short-cut virus is a worm which has infected several devices around the world. This Short-cut Virus is infected through internet or USB peripheral devices like USB Pendrives, SD cards, Digital Camera, Portable Hard-disk and Mobile Phones. Sometimes you connect your Pendrives to your friends Computers or College Computer for exchanging data and once you have completed copying a file to your device you may see some files on your devices with a shortcut arrow it means your devices is infected from Short-cut virus because you friends computer or college computer is infected already with this virus. You may think by deleting this copy files is the solution of your all problem it means you are absolutely wrong. To know how to remove this virus follow the following steps.
How to Remove Shortcut virus from USB Pendrive / SD card / Hard-disk
There are two method to remove Shortcut virus from your USB Pendrive / SD card / Hard-disk.
- Using CMD
- Using Software
Using CMD
Click on Start > Search > CMD. Right click on CMD ( Run as Administrator. Open the CMD (Command Prompt) and the type the following command.
If you want to delete this virus from Pendrive / SD card / portable Hard-disk. Connect your USB Storage (Pendrive / SD card / portable Hard-disk) to your Computer.
Type in CMD:
attrib -h -r -s /s /d F:\*.*
or
attrib F:\*.*/d /s -h -r -s
Replace the "E" with your infected drive or any drive you want to scan like USB Pendrive / SD card / Hard-disk. Replace like "E" with "D".
Note: After the completion of this process format your storage and again recopy into it.
Using Software
There are lots of software are found in web for removing shortcut virus, but i prefer USB Fix for removing short-cut virus because it is freeware and it works great.
If you are doing some work then please close your all programs from taskbar because when this Software run it auto close your all programs and you may lose your data. Connect your USB Storage to computer and choose clean.
To download USB Fix click on this link.
If you have any problem to remove the copy files then please contact us or comment it below.
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