Remove Shortcut Virus From Computer / Pendrive Permanently

Most of Computer User are familiar with a sentence that "Computer Virus infection is only removed through antivirus programs". But this time we are talking about Shortcut Virus which is a new modern virus automatically comes in your Computer/USB/SD Card/Pendrive and convert your content into a shortcut. Some time this virus will make all of your content invisible.The main problem of Shortcut virus problem is not removable by anti-virus programs.

When you Scan using anti-virus program in your Shortcut virus infected storage they give “No threat detected” which was really confusing. Today I will show solution to Remove shortcut virus from PC/Laptop or from Pen drive. Lets see

Method 1: Remove Shortcut using cmd 

For Unaffected Computer:

1. From Start Menu click on RUN .
2. Type wscript.exe and press enter.
3.  Mark on Stop script after specified number of seconds . Put the values 1 . Then Click on Apply .

Now, No Virus will not be able to enter your computer for pendrive/removable device.

For Affected Computer:

1. Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc from KeyBoard
2.  Go To Process Tab
3. Now, Select wscript.exe file.
4. Then Click on End Process
5. Now Go through Your Computer C:/  And search wscript using search Box.
6. If, you find any file Delete all of them by pressing Shift+Delete key
7. If, some file are unable delete then skip them
8. Then From Start Menu click on RUN .
9. Type wscript.exe and press enter.
10.  Mark on Stop script after specified number of seconds . Put the valus 1 . Then Click on Apply

Now, No Virus will not be able to enter your computer for pendrive/removable device.

For Affected Computer:

1. Connect your affected pen-drive on your computer
2. From Start Menu click on RUN .
3. Type cmd and press enter.
4. Now, Type Your Pen-drive letter(Like: H:) and press enter.
5. Then type this code correctly

   attrib -s -h -r /s /d *.*

6. After typing Press enter from your Keyboard
7. Now, Open your Pen-drive from My Computer . You will show all of pen-drive files.
8. Collect and save all of important and necessary files from your pen-drive to Hard Disk and format your pen-drive.

Now, Your Computer and pen-drive is totally shortcut virus free.

Method 2: Remove Shortcut using BAT (.bat) file

1. Open Notepad from your computer/laptop.
2. Copy or Type the below code as it is on notepad.

@echo off

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

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

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

@echo complete

1. You should Replace Drive with your drive name. Eg: F:
2. Now click on Save As… by clicking on File tab in notepad and change the save as type to “All files(*.*)” from “Text documents” and rename it to removeshortcutvirus.bat and save it on your desktop.

1. After that, Close notepad and go to desktop. Then double click on the BAT file that you have just created.
2. All shortcut viruses from the respective drive will now be removed in couple of seconds and your original files will be back.