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How to Remove Shortcut Virus. USB Drives, especially those which we used on public computers such as Internet cafes, business centers, and schools are very susceptible to contamination by viruses present on other users of the machine devices. One of the most common is the “shortcut virus” that creates many unwanted icons on your USB device while hidden files that really matter; hindering or even preventing, the access to them.

Shortcut virus usually creates the shortcut files, for example, folders shortcut as shown in the image above. When you see such shortcut files or folders in your Computer or USB drive then this are the signs that your computer or USB drive contains the Shortcut virus.

It cannot be detected by normal antivirus.

There are two methods to Remove Shortcut Virus

1. Using CMD to remove shortcut Virus
2. Cleanup shortcut Virus using Shortcut Virus Fixer

Method 1: Using CMD To Remove Shortcut Virus

I will show you three simple Steps to remove this virus from your computer or USB drive, with the help of your command prompt system,

Step 1. Right-click on Start and select Command Prompt (Admin).

Step 2. Enter the following in your Command Prompt “attrib :*.* /d /s -h -r -s” without quotes, replaced the USB drive letter with your own drive letter. Suppose your flash drive is on (Drive F) so you must imply the following command “attrib f:*.* /d /s -h -r -s” without quotes and hit enter.

Step 3. Now wait for some time until CMD finishes the command, once it’s completed successfully the shortcut virus will be removed from your PC.

 Method 2: Cleanup shortcut Virus using Shortcut Virus Fixer

You can also remove this virus by installing a software Shortcut Virus Fixer.

Click here: To download Shortcut Virus Fixer

Feel free to ask any question in the comments section below.