How to Remove shortcut virus from Pendrive, PC, windows7,8 or memorycard

If all your folders in pen-drive/flash drives or memory cards are converted into shortcut icons then it is a good news for you. 
Now I’m going to tell you how to remove this virus without using any antivirus software. If you have not formatted your flash drive then you can solve this problem.

How to remove Shortcut virus?

     Follow the below Steps to remove Shortcut Virus:

• Go to Start -> Run -> cmd.
• Go to your pen drive, memory cards or mobile phone directory.
• Type del *.lnk (to delete all link files in the directory)
• Type attrib -h -r -s /s /d e:*.*
• Replace e with your drive letter.
• And then press a gentle Enter.

Just follow the below given steps to remove, delete, wipe out or whatever the shortcut virus from your pen drive, memory cards or even mobile phone and recover back your files.

Note : After when you got your files, just copy your files somewhere in your PC and format your drive and then copy again your files to the drive. Only then your shortcut virus will get off from your PC…!

     Still having problems then try following steps

• If you are getting attrib not recognized error then follow these steps-

attrib command troubleshooting:

  When you try to use some attrib commands in command prompt like ” attrib -h -r -s /s /d e:*.* ” There may be any one of the following reasons:

• Check with your command given, Check for spell mistakes and spaces.
• You have given the command correctly, but it’s not found in the directory. You may fail to give the class path, where the Command prompt variables are defined. 

set path: 

•  My Computer – > Properties -> Advanced -> Environment variables
• In system Variables, double click on the path to edit.
• Give these two paths there, If not Present. 

                        1. C:\WINDOWS\system32;   

                        2. C:\WINDOWS

 

• If you are getting access denied error

Fix – access denied for attrib command in Windows

                  When you are using your attrib commands for the purposes like ” Virus Removal “, there are some chances of getting access denied,

Follow these steps to recover:

               When you get access denied when trying to use an attrib command in command prompt window, Just follow the following steps to fix it.

 1. Restart your PC in Safe mode
 2. Do a Check Disk (CHKDSK)
 3. Try your attrib command now.

 

Note: If the Drive gets infected again and again ” Make a Boot Time Scan Using Avast Antivirus”

               This will really work. 

•  Remove any other viruses (autorun) using cmd (command prompt)?

 If still you are facing problems then comment below I'll try to help you....
  

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