How to Remove Shortcut Virus Permanently

We have all encountered that frustrating situation where you plug your flash drive into your computer and all files and folders are automatically transformed into shortcuts. But worry no more, the solution is here!!! We will look at how to get rid of this virus in two easy methods.

Method 1: Using CMD
Step 1: Go to the start menu and click “Run” or press “windows key + R”
Step 2: Type CMD in the dialogue box that appears and press the enter key. This takes you to command prompt
Step 3: Now, type the following command in the command prompt window: attrib -h -r -s /s /d X:\*.* (where X is the flash
drive. For example if you connected your flash drive and it read as drive H: then replace X with H. You can see the drive letter in My Computer)
Step 4: Now, the flash drive is virus free. But one last thing left to do; copy all files from the drive to another drive, format the drive, then copy your files back to the drive and you are good to go.

Method 2: Using USBFIX
Step 1: Download and install USBFIX. You can download it from here
Step 2: Close all ruining programs to prevent loss of data because once the program is launched, it might close all running applications. Now launch USBFIX
Step 3: Now, click on the clean option in USBFIX and wait a little while for it to complete the cleaning process.
Step 4: Restart your computer and say goodbye to the shortcut virus!!!

Those are two easy methods that you can use to be free from the shortcut virus.

If you have any questions or doubts, don’t hesitate to use the comments section.