The Killing of Virus
I created this ultimate guide on how to remove shortcut virus and other important things that you need to know about this virus. To make you aware about it and be able to protect your devices against it. So let’s start
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Multiple computers are usually spread viruses using USB, external media and the internet. When we open the USB drive on our computers, it will get activated if a flash drive infected with a virus. This shortcut virus replicates your files and folders, hide and replace it with shortcuts.exe. This is a combination of Trojan and Worm. The bad thing about this shortcut virus, it will leave you no options but to click it in order to open your files and folders. Then after executing it, the virus starts to duplicate itself and install malicious software that monitors your computing habit and worst, steal your important data and credit card information.
The reason of execute virus is auto-run functionality in windows. Windows search for autorun.inf file in the flash drive. The autorun.inf file contains info about which program to execute when the flash drive is insert.
The recommended way to use USB flash drive without execute a virus is to disable the Auto Run functionality of windows.
How to:
To disable auto run functionality, do these step,
1) Go to run > gpedit.msc. To open the Group Policy Editor.
2) Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > AutoPlay Policies.
3) In the right hand pane, enable "Turn off AutoPlay" setting.
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If your flash drive already bind with viruses, you can safely remove it by deleting autorun file.
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Removing viruses by the help of command prompt:
1) Open Command Prompt as administrator (windows key + R) > Put CMD & ENTER,
(Windows 8: search for "CMD" > right click and select "Run as administrator").
2) Connect your USB flash drive.
(If you have antivirus, scan it)
3) Select your drive (D:, E:, F:, check yours from my computer)
4) After the selection of drive, type the following
attrib -h -r -s /s /d *.*
(to know more about "Attrib" command, type in cmd "attrib /?".
Now open your flash drive, delete unwanted files. your shortcut files again convert to normal files.
I recommended you to after this command process, save your data to pc and format your drive and again copy it.
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