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January 26, 2016 How to Remove Shortcut Virus from USB Drives & PC Today I am going to share easy methods on how to remove the stubborn shortcut virus from your USB Drive & PC. We are going to share four simple tricks to remove the shortcut virus from your computer or Pen drive automatically. U USB Drives, especially those which we used on public computers such as in schools, Internet cafes, hotels etc, 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. The first thing to notice if you had installed the shortcut virus in your system is that it will be not get removed by your normal antivirus scanning it’s somehow stubborn. Shortcut virus usually creates the shortcut files, for example, Notepad.shortcut etc. So if yo...

Windows batch script to unhide files hidden by virus Since I'm seing many people having their files hidden by flash drive viruses, I'm giving them a Windows command line using  attrib  (or using Linux) to solve the problem when the infected files are removed and the their files are still "missing". The command removing file and folders properties system, hidden and arquive (not really needed): attrib -s -h -a /s /d :\*.* Does anyone know a how to make a script to prompt the user for the drive letter or folder? I've already seen some software that does something like this but I think this would be better. thx! [Solved] Solved using Cheeso's code as base @ECHO OFF ECHO "Enter Drive letter" set /p letter= attrib -s -h -a /s /d %letter%:*.* [Improved a bit] @ECHO OFF ECHO Type the drive letter. ONLY the letter. ECHO ALL FILES ARE GOING TO BE MODIFIED!!! set /p letter= ECHO %letter%: selected taskkill /im explorer.exe /f ECHO. ...