

So, that’s a simple guide on removal of shortcuts virus from USB/PC and a simple recovery of lost data. Bitdefender Internet Security 2014 (Review).Now open your Pen drive and it will display all your files and folders which were previously converted into shortcuts.Type attrib -H -S G:\*.* /S /D /L in the command line and hit Enter.Click on Start=>All Programs=>Accessories=> CMD, right click on it and run it as Administrator.


In this article, we will be learning How to remove shortcuts virus from pendrives/USB. Just by using a simple command in CMD, one can easily get all the lost data restored within minutes. Recently, I shared a small guide to unhide hidden system files on Pen drive. You can easily recover your data if it is infected by a virus (that creates shortcuts of Files and Folders). Apparently it looks like the original data has been eaten up by the virus but in actual that is not the case. First it hides all the data present on flash drive and then creates shortcuts of all files. The virus that automatically creates shortcuts in USB pen drive is much common these days.
