How to Remove Shortcut Virus from USB Flash Drive and Computer.

Pendrive, SD Cards or Flash drives are very common device to transfer data from one computer to another, also sometimes we get errors while connecting pendrive to Computer and during data transfer one of them is Shortcut Error, basically this is a Virus known as Shortcut virus, it converts every files into shortcut in pendrive / Hard drive.

What is Shortcut Virus and How it Spread.

When we connect a flash drive to a infected computer and transfer any file it automatically infect pendrive and all files shown as Shortcut. This virus can affect any external storage like Flash Drives, External Hard disk, Phone Memory, Memory card or any Memory Stick, this is an anonymous malware which initially released online and spreading from one computer to another and we got Shortcut of files which are in USB drive if you try to open any file you will get error message.

You Can See How Files are Showing in Removable Disk (D:)

How to Remove Shortcut Virus From Pendrive / USB Drive.

If your USB drive don’t have important files you can try to Format it, but if it contains important files then you are not going to format it, to Remove Shortcut Virus follow the Steps Below.

Step 1. Go to Start and Search for cmd , as it appears in start menu Right Click on it and Click on “Run as Administrator“

Step 2. Navigate to Flash Drive by typing its letter. [ Lets Say it is i ], to find your USB drive letter open “My Computer” and check for letter, type i: and hit enter.

Step 3. Type ” del *.lnk ” (without quote) in cmd window and Hit Enter on your Keyboard.

Step 4. Now type ” attrib -s -r -h *.* /s /d /l ” ( without quote ) and hit Enter .