How to Remove Short Cut Virus

Remove Shortcut Virus from Micro SD / Pen Drive

Now a days Pen Drives are widely used to carry our personal data or even official Data from one place to other. CD/DVD drives and USB cables to connect our smart phones. We now a days trend to transfer lot of pictures/Audios and videos too. In the process we end up inflicting our Pen Drive, Micro SD and system with lots of virus and even our files changed into shortcut files which doesn't seem to get cleaned with Antivirus available.

One such virus is shortcut virus which turns our important files into shortcut thereby making it inaccessible for use.

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

Please Follow the below Steps to Remove Short cut Virus from your Pen Drive, Micro SD and Phone.

• Go to START > RUN > CMD or go to command prompt
• 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 desired drive letter).
• And then press a gentle Enter.

 You are done with restoring your important files.

It is recommended that 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...!

Always scan your system post inserting the USB.

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