Until now, the shortcut virus that appears on the USB flash drive or in the other storage still is the mystery of the users. Actually, this shortcut comes because of your USB flash drive are influenced on the virus that came from another media, (it can be from the computer itself). Or, for the first, your computer are clean from the virus, but because of you plugin on your USB drive that has been contaminated by the virus to the computer. It makes virus attack the computer so you need to remove shortcut virus on USB drive. Read also this 9 signs that your computer is infected by malware and viruses.
Actually, for removing this virus are easy (it depends on how far the virus attack your drive). But sometimes, it is needing a long time for scanning virus. And now, Info New Technologies would like to share the tips of remove shortcut virus on USB drive or hard disk external or other drive. So let’s follow the steps below:
How to Remove Shortcut Virus on USB Drive
- Plug in your USB drive to the computer then opens it.
- Click “Organize”, then click “Folder and search options”
- Enable “Show hidden files, folders, and drives”, then unchecklist on “Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)”.
- If this notice appeared, just select Yes.
- Usually, this folder is hidden by the virus has been turning back. Even the status is semi-hidden.
- To make it normal again, just open CMD (Command Prompt). After it opened, type the locations of the USB drive, example: Drive E, so that type ” E: “
- Then type : attrib -s -r -h /s /d on CMD, like this below image.
- Click Enter.
- Now, check your USB flash drive. Do your folder on the USB drive have been back again? If yeah, just remove the folder that you looks unclear.
Actually, the several ways above are for turning back the USB drive that hidden by shortcut virus and for remove shortcut virus on USB drive just for a while. If the USB drive is plugin into the computer that infected by shortcut virus, the same things would happen again. The best way to treat this is using Antivirus. You can do Full Scan on the every Drive, including the USB flash drive.