Are you sick of shortcut virus in your usb or pen drive? Are you trying to find proper and ultimate solution for this problem? Well, there is nothing to worry about because it is not difficult to find shortcut virus remover tool. These tools can remove it permanently. It is plus that shortcut virus remover software is so easy to use that even a child can use it properly. Just follow the methods I am going to explain in this article.
Pen Drives, External hard drives, SD cards etc are very commonly used in houses and offices to transfer personal and official data. The moment these devices are connected to computer, sometimes some unknown malware suddenly attacks them and makes it hell difficult to transfer data to or from these devices. Sometimes this is how it happens. Or it seems to happen. You click the folder and it automatically creates the shortcut of folder. If you click this shortcut, another shortcut appears. And it goes on.
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This malware is commonly known as ‘Shortcut Virus’, and it converts every item into shortcut. The sources involved in the conspiracy of spreading this virus are normally web, flash drives their selves or any third-party. It starts creating the duplicates of all original files. Clicking them leads to further damages. More viruses are born which hide your original files. This malware is intelligent enough to hide itself from anti virus. Most of the anti virus software cannot even detect it. Even if somehow it is detected and removed, it recovers itself.
Types of Shortcut Virus on Windows Computer or Pen Drive
There are two types of Shortcut virus. Out of these, the most common one is Flash drive shortcut virus and the other File and folder shortcut virus.
Flash Drive Shortcut Virus
This basically is a Trojan virus. It combines all of the files in your portable device and keep them in a hidden folder. Then it makes a total new shortcut file, named as Flash Disk Shortcut.exe. You can not view other files, unless you click this file. Once you click this file, virus initiates the installation of malicious softwares which are capable of spying your computing routine and send your data on their own servers. It is highly alarming, as your credit card information may get passed on to hackers.
File and folder Shortcut Virus
This is a combination of both Trojan and warm. It can copy your files and hide the orginal files and replace them with shortcut with .exe or .vbs extension. Rest of the mechanism is identical to previous type. You have no other option except clicking the shortcut, and once you click it, the virus activates and start destroying your device.
Methods to Remove Shortcut Virus from SD Card / Pendrive / Hard disk
Shortcut Virus Remover CMD
Shortcut virus remover can also work via cmd. Yes command prompt can be effectively used to remove the virus and recover the files. You do not have to download any shortcut virus remover tool.
Open the Command Prompt on Windows Computer.
Go to Start > Run > Type ‘cmd’ and then press Enter.
Then, enter the name of the drive which you wanted to remove the virus for example “f:’ or “h:” and press Enter.
Now, type this command and hit Enter. “attrib f:*.* /d /s -h -r -s” or attrib -h -r -s / s / d f:\*.*
(We have assumed that f is the Drive Label for Pen Drive)
Once the process finishes completely, Virus will be Removed from Pen Drive, Memory card of any existing drive..
How to Remove Shortcut Virus from Windows PC in Pen Drive or USB on Windows Computer or Laptop?
If the problem still persists, there is something wrong with your pc. You have to clean the PC first of all, which protects it before the insertion of external device. You can download any antivirus software to remove this virus from PC. The antivirus which is most recommended by security professionals is ESET Nod32. It is one of the best software to remove any kind of virus. Just install ESET Nod32 antivirus and perform a Boot time scan, this will remove all the available virus in boot time. Microsoft security essentials for Windowseven this works well. These all steps will work perfectly fine with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10.
How to Remove Shortcut Virus Permanently from Windows PC & Recover Hidden Files?
Open the Windows Task manager on your pc. For this, you just have to press Ctrl+Shift+Esc and go to process tab.
Search for the process exe or any other such processes and right-click then End task.
Press Windows key+R and type ‘Regedit‘ and press Enter to open the Registry editor.
Then navigate to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run
Now search for the registry key named “odwcamszas.exe” and than right-click on it to select it. In case you can not find the exact same key but search for some other junk values which do nothing.
Now you can reboot PC and the changes will be saved.
If you do not want to follow all the steps and you want some easy and automatic mechanism to clean the virus, you should give a try to Shortcut Virus Remover Batch file. It is click and run file. You must have administrator level access on your computer to execute .bat file. It will perform all the manual commands automatically, without any hassle to write each command on command prompt, manually.
Tips to Avoid Shortcut Virus on Windows Computer or Laptop
Sometimes an antivirus is unable to detect a powerful virus.However, you can always take some precautions to avoid this situation. Just follow the instructions below.
Never run flash drive from Autorun or My computer.
Open your pendrive by right-clicking on it and explore the option. May be you can type the address of the flash drive in the address bar.
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