How To Remove Shortcut Viruses Using CMD- Today i am going to share knowledge of how to remove shortcut viruses from pendrives,memory cards,external hard disks.It is best method to remove viruses from the external drives.Generally we connect the external hard drives a shortcut can be made.just follow this post to How To Remove Shortcut Viruses.
How To Remove Shortcut Viruses Using CMD
This problem may cause not only in pen drives, also in memory sticks, phone memories, external hard disks etc. If we trying to open those folders Windows will show an error that “Shortcut missing…!” We afraid of losing our data and somebody format the drive. But no need to afraid for this and format. Yes, this is a type of virus affection. Just follow the simple steps to remove that shortcuts and retrieve your folders back.
1. After plug in your virus affected drive, just press Win key + R to open Run box and type “cmd” and press Enter key. (Without double quotes)
2. In the opened command prompt, open your drive by enter your drive letter as shown in the below figure. For example, if your drive letter is enter g: and press Enter. (To find your drive letter just open “My Computer” and check your drive icon)
3. Now type “ del *.lnk” and hit Enter.(without double quotes).
4. Finally type the below command and hit Enter. (without double quotes).
“ attrib -s -r -h *.* /s /d /l ”
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1. In this step you have to remove shortcut virus using CMD.
2. Click on “Start” –>Run –> type cmd and click on OK.
3. let me consider your drive letter as G:
4. Enter the this command:
“ attrib -h -r -s /s /d g:*.*
“ attrib G:*.* /d /s -h -r -s
Note: Don’t forget to replace the letter g with your drive letter. Give a look to your files. Must Saw Firstly Your Drive Letter as whatever be it is as example like this- g:,h:,l:,
That’s it, just wait some seconds. Then open and check your drive. Your folders will be retrieved. I hope this is useful for you. If any doubt, comment below. Share with your friends. Don’t forget to subscribe us freely.This will definitely recover all the folders, but it wont completely remove all the virus, better you scan the drive with an antivirus.
You can recover your all file by using WINRAR. Just Follow the steps and recover your file easily
1) Firstly open WINRAR.
2) Now go to your PC drive or USB Pen drive Location.
3) Now copy all the files and paste anywhere you want.
4) Then Format your Drive or USB pen drive.
5) Now you can copy all the data again in your drive or USB pen drive
Suggestion: If your Drive or USB Pen drive affected again and again then use Avast Antivirus and “do Boot Time Scan” to remove this virus completely from your drive.
