In this article, i will tell you how to remove Shortcut Viruses from your computer, USB or SD card. All of us sometimes face the problem of shortcut viruses and we became angry because this shortcut virus can't go even we delete. Mostly it comes from USB, SD cards and some other sources and effect badly on our system.
About Shortcut Virus
This seems like shortcut icons. When you copy data to your computer you can see shortcut arrow preview with the folder and if you open this folder by mistake then the real problem begins. Even if you delete this folder but it appears again and again and you cannot get rid of it. when you clicked on the infected folder it runs a ".vbs" script and it runs two things one for temporary and the other one for start and restart. That's why it appears again and again.
when it effects your computer then whenever you connect other devices like USB or external hard drives with your computer then this virus also effect them badly.
It can effect badly when your computer is infected by this virus then this virus connects with its server and stole your personal data and sends through internet.
Solution of Shortcut Viruses
Now if your computer is infected so what to do? There are many ways to get rid of this type of virus.
Firstly, we can also remove this virus through Command Prompt. I am going to tell you the step by step procedure to remove the shortcut virus using command prompt.
1) Click on start and type run. If using windows Xp then click run hit enter.
Now use the following command.
i) attrib -h -r -s /s /s i:\*.*
ii) attrib i:\*.* /d /d -h -r -s
Then hit enter.
Now relax yourself :) it will detect your shortcut viruses and delete it.
There are also some softwares that could do this. I will tell you about these softwares later.
Hope you like this article
Follow us on Facebook: Computer Spy
Keep visiting our blog for more information. Thanks
0 comments:
Post a Comment