How To Remove Shortcut Virus From PC/Laptop/Pendrive

I’ve been suffered from this shortcut folder virus and of course after that I was doing research on fixingHow to Remove shortcut virus from PC/Laptop or Pen Drive. And today I finally came up with this tutorial which will help you to Remove shortcut Virus from your system easily.

You might have been through this at least once where you were unable to remove any shortcut folder from your pc, laptop or pen drive ? of course you’ve been suffered. And you might have taken that thing very lightly like I did. But then I suffered from that. This shortcut virus will slowly harm your system and ultimately you’ll have to format your system. So I am here to help you so that you are not going to suffer like I did. Lets get started.

Please don’t take this shortcut virus lightly it will harm your system very badly. So I am suggesting you to follow my steps as soon as possible to learn How Remove Shortcut Virus from your PC/Laptop or Pen Drive completely. Removing this shortcut virus can be done using many methods such as through CMD method, using .Bat file method, using registry softwares etc. Don’t worry we aren’t going to cover each and every method because it will be meaning less. So we’re going to cover only those methods which are easy to use and really fast. So now you’re about to Remove Shortcut Virus from your PC/Laptop or Pendrive.

How to Remove Shortcut Virus from PC/Laptop or Pen Drive ?

Method 1: Remove Shortcut Virus via CMD

Don’t panic. CMD isn’t hard to use and its really easy. Even a 5th grade kid can do it. All you need to do is just follow the steps which I’ve listed below:

Step 1: Go to Run –> type CMD and hit that classy enter button 

Step 2: Type the command which is given below in your CMD.

attrib -h -s -r -a /s /d Drive-Name:*.*

Please don’t forget to replace “Drive-Name” with your Drive name.

Step 3: Now after you have written the command it will look somewhat like attrib -h -s -r -a /s /d C:. 

Step 4: Now Hit that Classy Enter Button Again. And you’re good to go.

Method 2: Remove Shortcut Virus using Shortcut Virus Remover Software (Recommended Method)

This is one of the easiest and my favorite method. No not because its easiest method but because software also removes shortcut folders with shortcut virus. Because I am the lazy one here and of course I hate to remove shortcut folders manually so I use this software every time and my all shortcut folders gets deleted easily.

Step 1: Now just open the software. This software doesn’t need of any installation!

Step 2: When you start the software you’ll have to select between Pen Drive or Computer.

Step 3: Now select the Drive and Click on Scan button.

Step 4: Now after selecting the drive than hit the Scan button. Wait for a while and click on Delete all Shortcut Virus. Now this will Remove Shortcut Virus from your PC/Laptop/Pen Drive.

Step 5: You’re done! That’s all.

I’m sure that Software method will definitely work for you for sure. In case if not just leave a comment below I’ll help you out to Remove Shortcut Virus from PC/Laptop/Pen Drive easily. In fact this method will also help you to remove shortcut virus from external Hard Drive too.

Also if you facing some problem in your micro SD card like if you forgot your memory card password or your memory card got corrupted then don’t worry in upcoming week we will write following articles, How to remove memory card password & how to get back corrupted memory card data.

If you’ve any doubt or any questions regarding this tutorial feel free to ask me in the comment section below.

SOURCE:HackerLint