How To Remove Shortcut Virus from Your PC

The shortcut virus hides the infected files and creates shortcuts for each files. This virus is very disturbing. It travels through USB Pendrives. You can get rid of them very easily. To remove the virus you need to:

1. Start CMD (Command Prompt) from Start Menu - All Programs - Accessories - CMD.

2. Type attrib-h-r-s / s / df: \ *. * where:

• The f: with d is the infected drive.
• -h unhides all files of the drive.
• -r frees the files from Read Only attribute.
• -s makes the files as non system file.
• *.* means files with any name or extension.

3. Press Enter.

4. Open the drive.

5. Permanently Delete all the unnecessary Shortcut, Autorun.inf, Desktop.ini files.

6. Scan your Computer with a good antivirus.