How to Remove Shortcut Virus from PC & USB Pen Drive/Memory Card Using CMD and USBFIX - Solve PD Shortcut Problem

Pen Drive, SD Card Is An External Removable Drive Of Mass Storage. We Can Use It For Data Transfer And Storage. The Good Thing Is That Size of These Is Very Small. So We Can Take Anywhere With Us. Many Times When You Connect/Insert Your Pen Drive to another PC, I Think You have Faced a Common Problem That Your Pen Drive All Data Convert/Change into Shortcut Files. This Reason of This Problem Is The Shortcut Virus. This Shortcut Problem Only Occurred When another PC Already Affected By Shortcut Virus. However Shortcut Virus Is Not A Very Dangerous Virus But It Is Really Irritating When Our Data Change Into Shortcut.

What Is Shortcut Virus: Pen Drive Shortcut Virus Is The Very Famous Virus, This Virus Change/Convert Your All Data/Content In Shortcut And Also Change/Convert Your Data Into System Files Which Is Always Hide Or Invisible. The Shortcut Virus Can Not Remove By Antivirus Software.

Many Person's Didn't Know About That How To Change Shortcut File In Original File Or How To Solve Shortcut Problem Or How To Remove This Virus And After having Hopeless at Last Somebody Format His Data Storage Device (Pen Drive). So Friends Use These Below Methods And I Hope After That You Don't Need To Format You Data Storage Devices.

So, In This Article We Are Going To Explain That How To Remove Shortcut Virus And How To Show Your Data In Original Format.

First Of All Make Sure That You Didn't Format Your Pen Drive. Well If You Did Format It, Then I Can’t Help You On This One. So Now Plug In Your Pen Drive And Follow Any One Method Or You Can Also Use All Methods.

We Are Sharing Here Three Methods For Solutions Of Shortcut Virus Problem:

Method 1). How To Solve Shortcut Virus Problem and How to Convert Your Files in Original Format to System Files (Change Attrib) or Unhide System Files Using Commend Prompt (CMD)

Follow These Steps:

Step 1. First Of All Open >> Command Prompt (CMD)

(Press Keyboard Shortcut Key (Windows Button + R) and Then in the RUN Type “CMD” And Press Enter)

Step 2. After Opening CMD. Now Type or Right Click Paste The Below Command Line in CMD: (See the Below Screenshot)

Attrib -r -h -s -a /s /d H:\*.*

(You Can Just Copy The Above Command And Paste It In The Command Prompt. To Do That Right-Click In the Command Prompt and Select Paste Because Keyboard Shortcuts Won’t Work)

Note: Don’t Forget To Replace the Letter H:\ With Your Pen Drive Letter.

Step 3. Now Hit On or Press >> Enter

That’s It, Just Wait Few Seconds. Then Open and Check Your Files in Pen Drive and I’m Sure That They Were All Normal as Before.

[Explanations of Attribute= (-=Remove) (-H=Hidden) (-R=Read-Only) (-A=Archive) (-S=System)]

The Above Method Is Not A Good Solution Of Shortcut Virus Problem This Method Only Unhide Your All System Files And This Method Doesn't Remove Any Virus. So Use This Below Methods If You Are Not Satisfied with Above Method.

Method 2). How To Remove or Solve Shortcut Virus Problem in All Drive Using a .Bat File.

If Your All Drives Are Infected To Shortcut Virus Then You Have To Run Above Command Separately For Each And Every Drive, So The Solution Of This Problem We Made This .Bat File For All Drive (Other Than C:\ Drive).

Download this .Bat File

*|* Download "Remove Shortcut Virus in All Drive.bat" File *|* [0.1 KB]

(What Is Windows bat File: Bat File Is Nothing But An Executable File Which Can Create In Notepad And Directly Executed By Double Clicking On It.)

After Download, Now Simply Open >> Double Click on This .Bat File. Now A Command Prompt Will Open And After Few Second It Will Automatically Close.

That’s It, Open Your Pen Drive and Check Your Data in Pen Drive.

Method 3). How to Solve Shortcut Virus Problem in PC or How to Remove Shortcut Virus from Pen Drive or Other External Removable Drive Using – USBFIX Windows Free Software.

This Method Is The Easiest And Best Method To Permanently Remove Shortcut Virus From PC As Well As Pen Drive, SD/Memory Card. It Also Remove Shortcut Virus From Your PC Internal Hard Drive.

Follow These Simple Steps:

1. First Of All Download the USBFIX Windows Software from Here

NEW VERSION

 **|* Download UsbFix_2016_8.168 Windows PC Free Software from Here *|** [2.9 MB]

RevClouds | UploadEx

OLD VERSION

USBFIX 2015 v 8.017 [3.74MB] - Openload

USBFIX v 7.812 [3.74 MB] - Userscloud

2. Now After Download, Install, And Open "USBFIX" From Desktop.

Note: Make Sure You Have Plug In / Connect the All External USB Device (Pen Drive, Memory Card, and HDD) To PC Which is Infected by Shortcut Virus.

3. Now Click On => “CLEAN” Option Icon on Start Screen of USBFIX.

4. Now Follow Next Pop-Up Screens And Click On => OK, Now => NO, Now => OK, Last >> NO.

Note: While Cleaning, You Will Lose Access To Your Desktop, But This Is Normal.

That’s It, All the Process Have Been Done. Once Cleaning Is Over Check Your Pen Drive And I Hope Your Shortcut Problem Have Been Definitely Solve.

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