How to Remove Shortcut Virus: 9 Powerful & Easy Tweaks!
Preventive Measure to Stop Shortcut Virus from Spreading Further in the First Place
I already told you about taking the quick preventive measure as soon as you spot it, right?
So, what exactly do you need to do?
You shall first protect the infected drive from spreading furthermore.
To do that, follow these steps:
- Stop autoplay of removable drives. This guide from Redmond Pie will help you to quickly disable autoplay of external drives.
- And when you want to open and get the contents of your USB Drive, don’t double click and open it, that will execute the virus. Instead, Right Click on the drive, click Explore. This way, the shortcut virus won’t execute.
So, let’s get into the 9 Powerful (Yet Easy) Tricks to Remove Shortcut Virus and rescue your data!
(Already got rid of the Shortcut Virus? Vote for the method that helped you to remove it)
#1 - USB Fix - Shortcut Virus’ Quick Remedy
UsbFix is a free malware removal tool to will help you to detect and remove shortcut virus. It can scan infected removable devices, USB’s external HDD’s, smartphones, digital cameras, etc.
And here’s the kicker:
It’s sort of plug and play software i.e. Download -> Open -> Run and you’re done!
With over 5 Million downloads, it is one of the most trusted software to remove shortcut virus. Also, it is designed in a user-friendly UI which will help you get things done easily and faster. The size of the software too, is quite small (approx. 4 MB) which will run and help you get rid of the shortcut virus instantly.
This software is planned by El Desaparecido and developed by sosvirus.net.
Features:
- Vaccinate: Permanent solution for the shortcut virus. This option will create a new autorun.inf file in your removable drive. An autorun file handles the auto-starting of the drive. So, the newly created file will have protective measures to prevent the shortcut virus.
- Repair:It repairs the damaged files of your removable drives. This will help in the recovery of hidden files, registry entries, task manager, etc.
- Back-Up:You can backup your files before running UsbFix to revert things back later if something goes wrong.
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Easy step by step guide thanks
sir my pc attacked in short cut folder virus all solutions is tried but pc on position only worked after shutdown to restart pc the virus is samely in pc. so please help me paremently removed to short cut folder virus
You should first use the command prompt method…then go to my computer and in the search box type “shortcut”. If u find any suspicious shortcut style files like u have a document “project” in docx form and its now showing in shortcut form then delete it(dont delete any useful c drive Files like the “shortcut creating file”)
Then again use the command prompt method to each any every drives as fast as possible and vòilà!
Method #5 was best for my usb.
My NetProtector 2016 removes these viruses without difficulty…even Kaspersky IS 2016 works…
KIS 2016 is unable to do it…
It might say tht the virus is gone but few of the virus files are actually still there
When activating the fixfolder.vbs from method #2 I get an error:
“Permission denied”
Error code: 800A0046
Great steps to remove shortcut virus. Thanks for the share
winrar method is awesome i dont think anyone didnt have winrar and its super easy
help me, when i open the app it say “new version update”
then when i click the free thingy it says enter your poassword. when can i get the pass? help me please 🙁 thankyou
Thank you.
usbshow delete shortcut virus program. Show your files.
You can download the program from the usbshow.net
In the 2nd step oh the 7th tweak, you never wrote the name of the .exe process to end!!!
Consider it done, thankyouuuuuu 😀
I used my method 5 but it says “Access denied - C: \ xxxx \ xxx”
Very useful article. thanks to share with it. Same thing happen… Method 5 has some problem, maybe…
Thanks a lot for this! USB Fix did the job!
In my laptop I am usiing Windows7. Most of the time I left click my mouse, it says, “Do you want to delete the Computer icon (or any other file/folder name) from your computer? To restore it later, go to personalization in Control Panel.” Even though I click NO button, it appers again. I have scanned all files & ran a boot-time scan, but no solution till now! Meanwhile I have lost around 23GB memory from my D drive. 🙁
Just right click ok the USB drive go to properties and then Tools run Check now and start your all files will b back it works best
3 it is easy to use for me
THank you ssoooooo very much .
thankssss bro helped me a lot 🙂
I went through this video to remove shortcut virus from my USB drive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXzDkriEawY
I did most of the above and was able to retrieve my files but drive.bat virus somehow still gets revived even after i format my flashdrives. Also, i bought new flashdrives but they just got infected the moment i inserted them on my laptop.
Am using Dell insp win10 but it keeps on creating un necessary shortcut and on the desktop it created a desktop shortcut and when I put in external HDD and a flash it creates a recyclebin and systems volume information. HOW DO I RESOLVE THAT PROBLEM
I’ve been trying to escape from this issue since last November .Tried various suggestions in the Net but failed . Finally found this You tube video & followed step by step . Was able to remove the Virus from my PC & Pen as well . Try this link -it works 100% but it takes half an hour for the entire process -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etFYid3OBRk
Indika
sir how solve shortcut virus by using cmd
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