How to Remove Shortcut Virus from [PC, USB, Pendrive]
Whenever we transfer the data to the pen drive, you may have seen small shortcut icons in pen drive. It's a type of virus that starts showing shortcuts in any file or folder. Mostly we try to format the pen drive to remove the shortcut virus, then the virus goes away from the pen drive once, but after inserting the pen drive into the computer, they start showing in pen drive again.The most common shortcut virus is that you have seen the flash drive shortcut virus or file and folder shortcut virus on the computer. These trojans can be worn and leak up your personal data. First of all, there should be good anti-virus in your computer to avoid these types of reasons and keep your computer safe or safe from viruses.
How can you save your data from this type of virus?
For any user, his data is a valuable thing. Which would never want to lose data by any kind of virus? You should take some precautions for this before putting pen drive or a hard drive on any computer.
- Do not use your pen drive or hard drive in any computer without knowing that its computer is free of viruses.
- Always use eject option to remove your pen drive from the computer.
Now start the process how we can remove the shortcut virus. There are so many ways to get rid of the shortcut virus. We are going to tell the easiest way to remove shortcuts from pen drive or hard drive virus.
1. Steps to remove shortcut virus with CMD method
- Open the Run Command window as Administrator.
- Now enter the path of the drive in which there is a virus with command below.
- Enter command (attrib f:\*.* /d /s –h –r –s)
2. Steps to Remove Shortcut Virus from Windows Registry File
- Press Win + R to open the Registry and type regedit in the Run window.
- Now copy the path below and paste it into the mark window and press Enter to jump to the main window.
- Computer \ HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run
- Here some files will appear with this type of name. |ZFTYBrTvz | ADVFszlls Remove this type of files from the registry.
How to Remove Shortcut Virus from [PC, USB, Pendrive]
Reviewed by Muneer Ahmed
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February 05, 2019
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