How to Remove Folder Shortcut Virus from Pen drive

How to Remove Folder Shortcut Virus from Pen drive/ External Hard Disk:

Now a day's computer users are using Pen drives to transfer the data documents, movies, music etc from one system to another system, but the problem with pen drives is virus

If you connect your pen drive/ External Hard Disk to your system all the folders in the pen drive /External Hard Disk itself converted into shortcut folders as shown below 

This is one of the common problem facing with pen drivers / External Hard Disk

This tutorial will help you to remove folder shortcut virus from pen drive / External Hard disk

Step 1: Connect your pen drive/external hard disk to your PC

Step 2: Find your pen drive/external hard disk drive Name

Here my Pen drive Name is G:

Step 3: Go to start search for cmd 

Step 4: Right click on cmd ->Run cmd as administrator  

Step 5: In cmd type your driver path as shown below 

Click on enter

Step 6: Type attrib -s -h /s /d *.*  command

Press enter, wait for some time this comment will remove shortcut virus from your pen drive/external hard disk

Remove your pen drive/external hard disk from your PC and re-connect and check your folders there would be no virus in your drive

 Enjoy :)

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