Remove Shortcut Virus From Pen drive/Memory Card

Many of us  had & having this problem. We've some most important data in our  pen drives  what  will we  do  if  all  the  data are loss ?  At  some day  all   the  folders which  are  in

our drive is  just showing  as shortcuts in Windows ( as shown in the above figure ).

This  problem  may cause  not only in pen drives but also in memory sticks, phone memories, external hard disks etc. If we are trying to open those folders Windows will show an error that 'Shortcut missing' We  afraid of losing our data & somebody format the drive. But no need to afraid for this & format. Yes this  is a type of virus  affection. Just follow  the simple steps  to remove that shortcuts & retrieve your folders back.

NOTE: No need  of any antivirus software to perform  this operation.

1. After plug  in  your virus affected drive just press Win key + R to  open Run box & type “cmd” & press Enter key. (Without  double quotes)
2. In the opened command prompt, open  your drive by enter your drive letter   as shown in the below figure. For  example, if your drive letter  enters g: & press Enter. (To  find your drive letter just  open 'My Computer' & check your drive  icon)
3. Now  type “del  *.lnk” & hit  Enter.(without  double  quotes)
4. Finally  type the below  command &  hit Enter. (without  double quotes)

“attrib  -s  -r -h  *.* /s /d /l”

 That’s it , just  wait some seconds. Then open & check your drive. Your folders  will be retrieved.  I hope this  is useful for you. If  any doubt, comment  below. Share with  your friends. Do not forget to subscribe us freely.