COMPUTER TIPS AND TRICKS- How to Remove Shortcut Virus

       I just want to share about how to remove shortcut viruses in your removable disk, like pendrive. A lot of people faced the problem that their removable disk is infected with annoying shortcut viruses. Some of them may choose the option to buy a new pendrive and throw away the infected one. Relax! There are some solution that could be made just to eliminate these viruses. Actually, shortcut viruses is not so maligned. It can be repaired with some skills, and I am here today to teach on that skills. 

     

1. First of all, go to the start menu, and type cmd. Then, click on the cmd.

2. Next, the following command should be typed. ( attrib -h -r -s/s/d f:\*.* ). After that, hit enter.

3. Wait for a little while for the windows path is coming.

4. After that, open your removable disk. You can see that the shortcut virus folder have been restored to the original folder.

5. Select all the shortcut folder and delete it. Now, problem solved.

       These solutions are for the removable disk such as pendrive or external hard disk. If your hard drive have been infected, you just have to be very diligent to scan your hard drive with your antivirus software. Some recommended software are the KASPERSKY. How about if you don;t have any antivirus? Well, it is easy. Go to the start menu, and type MICROSOFT DEFENDER. When you click that icon, it will automatically scan your hard drive.