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Virus From Pen Drive Complete Guide

This document provides instructions to remove virus-created shortcuts that cause folders on USB drives, memory cards, or hard drives to appear as shortcuts instead of normal folders. The 11 steps include opening an administrative command prompt, changing to the drive letter, removing hidden and read-only attributes from files using the attrib command, deleting the Autorun.inf file, deleting shortcut files, checking for suspicious processes, and using advanced search to find and delete duplicate-sized files that may be virus-created shortcuts.

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Virus From Pen Drive Complete Guide

This document provides instructions to remove virus-created shortcuts that cause folders on USB drives, memory cards, or hard drives to appear as shortcuts instead of normal folders. The 11 steps include opening an administrative command prompt, changing to the drive letter, removing hidden and read-only attributes from files using the attrib command, deleting the Autorun.inf file, deleting shortcut files, checking for suspicious processes, and using advanced search to find and delete duplicate-sized files that may be virus-created shortcuts.

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How to solve Folders Showing as Shortcuts, Hidden in

USB/Memory-Card/HDD
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guide

To remove such virus follow the steps


1. Open administrative command prompt.
2. Go to your pen-drive drive letter. Suppose your USB disk is G:.
Type G: and press Enter

3. Now type the below command to remove system file, hidden read-
only attribute
attrib -s -h -r /s /d *.*

4. Delete Autorun.inf from USB Disk.

5. This makes all files visible and you are now able to delete them .

6. del *.lnk

7. Now to remove the shortcuts from pen-drive , Check the size of


any One or Few Shortcuts, all be same.

8. Delete suspicious files, on errror check task manager for process


with same name or any suspicious process and end it.

9. Open Explorer and right Click on Pen-drive , Click Open.

10. Search with Advance Search for all files of same size in Pen-
drive.

11. Select All and Delete

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