Shortcut Virus is infecting most of the removable device. It creates .exe or .lnk(windows shortcut) files of the folder in your removable storage device like pendrive and memory cards.you wont be able to copy the files and use in another computer.
Here's the solution to remove the shortcut virus
- First of all open “Folder Option” and uncheck “Hide the Protected System Files” and select “Show Hidden Files“
- There is a command that let user to give those kind of attributes to files and folder “attrib”
- Open a “Command Prompt“
- And Select the drive which got infected .For example if your drive is “F:\” (Just type F: and enter)
- Then use this command “attrib -h -s -i /s /d”
- Command Breakdown :-
- -h : remove hidden attribute from the file/folder
- -s : remove system file attribute from the file/folder
- -i : remove non-index file attribute from the file/folder
- /s : process all files
- /d : process folders as well
Now you would be able to access the file easily.
- Command Breakdown :-
