How To Remove Shortcut Virus By CMD

If your pendrive or usb has been affected by shortcut virus this post will help you to remove these shortcut virus from your computer. A shortcut virus make your all data in a shortcut icon as like a folder or other. An image can be shortcut or a media file as like audio, video or any document file also can be show as a shortcut icon. Don't worry about shortcut icon there is solution with easy way no need any software to use just one line code can help you. At first see some screenshot of shortcut virus how it is look like.

Shortcut Virus In Mac

 Shortcut Virus In Windows 7 or 8

Shortcut Virus In Windows XP

Solution How To Remove Shortcut Virus By CMD

Just meet the steps to remove shortcut virus from your usb in your computer. Open "Run" click on "Start Menu" >>>Run >>> type "cmd" and click OK.
Now you will see the cmd (command promt) has been open, if my usb external drive name is H: then command is like bellow code,

attrib -h -r -s /s /d h:\*.*

You can also see the screenshot of this code to remove shortcut virus: 

How To Remove Shortcut Virus By CMD

If want you can copy the above command and now Right-click in the Command Prompt and paste it.

Note : Replace the green letter h with your External hard drive letter name.

You have finished it now you can check for your files in external drive.