Tuesday 27 August 2013

How to remove Shortcut Virus From Pendrive, Memory card and Hard disk

Do you Find hidden folders and Shortcuts of Folder in your Computer and Pen drive.Do your Flash drive shows hidden folders and shortcuts whenever you plug it into you Computer, then you are reading the correct article.Here we will discuss how to remove these hidden and Shortcuts of Folders.This problem can also be faced on Computer HDD.Many peoples think it can be solved with antivirus.This problem occurs due to Autorun Worm which is the root cause of it.
Whenever you Scan with Antivirus it detects and delete but when you refresh it appears again.So here we will discuss how to remove this from it's root.Here we will discuss 2 methods Command prompt and Batch File.And this are the easiest method to remove these Shortcuts.

Using Command Prompt:-
 To remove Shortcut.info file files from your Hard disk, Pendrive and memory card, this is the easiest method.To remove it from Command Prompt just follow below instructions:-

Go to Run (Win key+r) and type cmd and hit enter.Command Prompt Screen will appear.Now just type the below code:-

                                            attrib -h -s -r -a /s /d drive_letter:\*.*

Just replace the "drive_letter" with your actual drive letter from which you want to remove the Shortcut.Assume that you Pendrive is showing J: letter then the command will be 

                                          attrib -h -s -r -a /s /d J:\*.*

After running this code all file and folder will be normal and Now you will be able to delete all the Shortcuts which was created by virus easily.

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