How to Remove Shortcut Virus

Steps to Remove Shortcut virus

I received this question from Many of my Readers, and wrote the easiest way to Remove Shortcut Virus from any Pendrive or PC. Having some important files in your Pen drive

and when you found those files turned into shortcuts, It will be really Shocking, I’ll write out the different possible solutions to remove these shortcut virus and hopefully one of them will work for you.

I have come up with 3 different solutions to remove shortcut virus from pen drive, a Shortcut virus Remover tool (Check point 3) and what if the problem is with your PC? You can find a solution at the end to recover your PC too.

What is Shortcut Virus? (Skip this if you don’t want to know)

Shortcut virus is a virus which Enters into your Pen drive, PC, Hard Disk, Memory cards or mobile phone and changes your files into shortcuts with the original folder icons.

When you Plugin your Pen drive in Your friend’s Shortcut Virus affected PC or when you insert your Friends virus infected USB to your Computer, You may get this virus too. Be cautious before Pairing devices, I have seen this problem in PC having antivirus too.  Below are the 4 best Methods to Delete this Shortcut Virus.

Methods to Remove Shortcut Virus from Pendrive:

1. Use WinRAR.
2. Remove Shortcut Virus using CMD (Command Prompt),
3. Shortcut Virus RemoverBonus Tip: Top Free Virus Removal Tools 2016

1. Use WinRAR to Getting Original Files

• Open WINRAR Application.
• Navigate to your Pen drive location or PC Folder location.
• Copy Files and Paste where you want.
• Format your Pen drive.

Try searching “WinRAR” in your Windows PC, If you can’t find the software, then download it from WinRAR (Trialware), WinRAR is a File Archive Software for Windows, you can use this software even to access files inside your Windows PC,

When you open a file using WiRAR no other process will run inside this, Virus being a process won’t get executed inside this software, hence you could find all your files when you open your Pendrive using WinRAR

2. Remove Shortcut virus using CMD

Here are the Steps to Remove the Shortcut virus using CMD, Using Command Prompt to remove a virus and recover files is the best way and there are more Possibilities for virus removal. This Method Removes Shortcut virus from Pen drive, Memory cards, PC, Hard disk, and even Mobiles. Just follow the steps given below

• Go to Start -> Run -> cmd.
• Go to your pen drive memory cards or mobile phone directory.
• Type attrib -h -r -s /s /d e:*.* (Where e is the Drive Label )
• And then press Enter.

There are chances for these two Errors,

Solution for Attrib is not a recognized commandSolution for Access denied for attrib command

Note: After when you got your files, just copy your files somewhere

3. Shortcut virus Remover

 When Command prompt codes end up with no result, we can try Shortcut Virus Remover tool, Since Shortcut virus is just a process, one can easily find the process running on the PC, You can find and remove the process, or use the tool given below to remove the process.

you could find the “Wscript.vbs” file in Task Manager under process, and also here is a software to remove the file in seconds Shortcut virus remover

Remove Shortcut Virus in Your PC

When you successfully removed the Shortcut virus and when you re-inserted the Pendrive, again when you got to see those shortcut folders, then the problem is with your PC.

Now you can use Antivirus to remove the shortcut virus in your PC, Avast is one of the best Shortcut Virus Remover. Just Install Avast Antivirus and do a Boot Time Scan, following this will remove all the virus in boot Time.