How To Remove Shortcut Virus From Pen Drive Using CMD

How To Remove Shortcut Virus From Pen Drive Using CMD

What to do when our Pen drive or PC get caught by the Shortcut virus. We use Pen Drives often to Transfer data from One PC to another PC or Laptop. Some times we are annoyed to see our files changed into shortcut files. This post will help you to recover the files and remove the virus from your Pen Drive.

Recover Your Shortcut Affected Files Through Winrar Software

You can recover your Shortcut Virus affected files through "Winrar".

What to do when our Pen drive or PC get caught by the Shortcut virus. 

What is Shortcut Virus?

              I have seen this problem in many PC's even if we have antivirus, when your storage media got infected by some anonymous malware, they change your files into shortcuts with the original folder icons. Just don’t worry, You can use simple steps to recover your files from your storage media using "Winrar" Software.

Steps to Recover Files :-

1. Open WINRAR Application.

2. Navigate to your Pendrive location or PC Folder location.

3. Copy Files and Paste where you want.

4. Format your Pendrive. 

Download Winrar.

Note: If the Drive gets infected again and again ” Make a Boot Time Scan Using Antivirus”

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How to know Ur PC is infected with virus

How to know Ur PC is Infected with Virus!!!

These are the 10 Signs or Symptons to say your system is Infected with Virus!

1. Computer Performance is slow

2. Your computer is infected!

3. Your Computer Takes more time to start.

4. Your browser keeps crashing or you get a new home page

5. You can’t access your task manager

6. Toolbars and Tray Icons out of nowhere

7. Your CPU Usage is 100% all the time.

8. You can’t access your folder options or the preferences are read only.

9. You can’t access the Windows Registry Editor

10. Autorun.inf in your local or external drive