How to Remove Shortcut Virus from Your Pen Drive.

When we insert any USB drive (Pen drive or flash drive) to our system then often we get a shortcut of that USB drive and we cannot access our document present in that USB drive. It is Ok if we have not any important file in our USB drive But what will we do if any important file present in that USB drive? How we can get back our important document from that USB drive? SO, today I am going to solve this problem. I am going to tell you a trick from which you can get access your all files present in that USB drive and you can remove that Shortcut Virus from your USB drive.

To remove Shortcut virus from your Pen Drive We have two methods but first of all you have to insert that Pen drive in your system and follow methods given below

Remove Shortcut Virus By Using CMD [Method 1]

you can simply remove shortcut virus from your PC/laptop or pendrive by using a command prompt (CMD). Even if you are a non-techy person then also you can easily remove shortcut virus from your pendrive or PC by following the CMD tutorial.

Steps To Delete Shortcut Virus By Using CMD:

1. You have to recognize your USB drive letter. Let us assume it is 'E' drive.
Step 2: - Go to Start and Search for Cmd.
Step 3: - Right click on Cmd and click on Run as administrator.
Step 4: - Type drive letter and colon and hit enter. (Ex - e:)
Step 5: - Now type del *. lnk and hit enter.
Step 6: - Just type then attrib -h -r -s /s /d E:\*.* (Where e is the USB drive letter) and press enter.
Step7: - Copy all data from USB flash drive to your computer.
Step 8: - Format the USB drive.
Step9: - And, copy all data back to the USB flash drive.

Now, all Shortcut files are fixed and working as normal files. The reason why I suggest you to format the USB is because there was some unknown files automatically generate as you use the command.

Remove Shortcut Virus By Creating BAT File [Method 2]

Have you ever heard about batch file(.BAT) programming ? If no then there is no need to worry as I have mentioned simple steps to remove shortcut virus from your PC by creating a BAT file and executing it. You do not need any extra tools to create a BAT file but just a Windows machine and notepad. This method is not very popular, however if the above two methods that I have mentioned does not work then you can give a try by using this method to remove shortcut virus from your PC or pendrive/memory card.

1. Open Notepad from your computer/laptop.
2. Type or copy the below code as it is on notepad.

   @echo off
   
   attrib -h -s -r -a /s /d Drive:*.*
   
   attrib -h -s -r -a /s /d Drive:*.*
   
   attrib -h -s -r -a /s /d Drive:*.*
   
   @echo complete

3. Make sure to replace Drive with your drive name. Eg: F:
4. Now click on Save As… by clicking on File tab in notepad and change the save as type to “All files(*.*)” from “Text documents” and rename it to removeshortcutvirus.bat and save it on your desktop.
5. Now close notepad and go to desktop and double click on the BAT file that you have just created.
6. All shortcut viruses from the respective drive will now be removed in couple of seconds and your original files will be back.

Enjoy...If you get any problem during this method don't hesitate to comment here. I will give you solution.. If you like my trick Please share this Post and follow me for updates.