Monday, September 14, 2015

how to Remove Shortcut Creating Virus From Pen Drive 2015

In recent times a funny shortcut creating virus is troubling PC users a lot. Even most of my friends in college are changing their Operating Systems (OS) because of this funny virus. Recently i gave my pendrive to my friend to get a movie. He inserted my pen drive in his PC and copied that file and he gave it to me. To copy that movie into my PC, I opened the pendrive then i saw something like below shown image. This is all because of Shortcut creating virus.
So today in this article i am going to show you the solution for Shortcut Creating Virus in Pen drives , Windows8 and Windows 7 PC’s. Actually this is not a dangerous virus but it is really irritating the Windows users.

I will tell you two solutions to remove Shortcut creating virus one is for Windows 8.1,8,7 and another one is for Flash drives, Pen drives.
  1. Temporary Solution to remove shortcut virus in Flash drives ( pen drives)
  2. Permanent Solution ( Remove Virus from your Windows 8.1 or Windows 8,7)
First we’ll see the temporary solution to remove shortcut creating virus.

 Remove Short Creating virus in Pen/USB drive With Command Prompt (CMD)

  • Open your command prompt . ( If you don’t know how to open command prompt, first simply press Windows button+R then you will see a prompt like below image. In the search box type  CMD and press enter then you will see command prompt.
run prompt  Windows +R
  • After opening your command prompt  see pen drive  location ( Like in the image ) then note that drive letter.
removal of shortcut virus in windows

copy your pendrive location.
  • Then type location of your Pen drive like in below image ( my pen drive location )
Copy pendrive location
Copy pendrive location
  • After this you have to type one final Command . Just copy the below command and paste it in your CMD  then hit enter.
  • Copy  the code ==>       attrib -s -h /s /d *.*
command to remove shortcut virus in pendrive
command to remove shortcut virus in pendrive
  1. Now go back to your pendrive and see all your files. You will see a empty folder open that empty folder  there you can see your folders.
shortcut virus removed
Files after removing the shortcut virus.

How to Remove Virus permanently from  Windows 8.1, Windows 8,7 PC

  • If you have Anti – Virus in your system just update it. Updating your Anti virus is very important.
  • If you don’t have any Anti – virus install any latest version of anti-virus

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