Almost every computer user has a USB flash drive. It has almost became a need to carry a USB flash drive now a days. But the most common frustrating issue about the flash drives are that they gets infected by viruses quite often. Its because when you plug a flash drive into a infected computer, thats when your flash drives gets infected too and when you plug your flash drive into another or your computer it gets infected too.
There are a lot of viruses, malwares spreading into the computers through flash drives but the most common is the shortcut virus. What this virus does is, that it creates shortcuts of folders on the flash drives and hides the actual folder and when you try to open the folder using those shortcuts, the shortcuts runs a script and gets your computer infected.
So in this tutorial I will teach you how to remove the shortcut virus from the flash drives without using any software or antivirus and without losing any of your data.
To remove the virus just follow the steps below.
Your flash drive is free from shortcuts virus now. There are a lot of viruses, malwares spreading into the computers through flash drives but the most common is the shortcut virus. What this virus does is, that it creates shortcuts of folders on the flash drives and hides the actual folder and when you try to open the folder using those shortcuts, the shortcuts runs a script and gets your computer infected.
So in this tutorial I will teach you how to remove the shortcut virus from the flash drives without using any software or antivirus and without losing any of your data.
To remove the virus just follow the steps below.
- Open the command prompt, by typing "cmd" in the search.
- After command prompt is opened, type this command attrib -h -r -s /s /d H:\*.*
Note: remove the " from the above quoted command and replace H with the drive letter of your flash drive. - Press Enter.
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Antivirus is very important specially for the machine on witch we used internet or save important data to kept safe.
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Antivirus is very important specially for the machine on witch we used internet or save important data to kept safe.
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