HOW TO REMOVE SHORTCUT VIRUS FROM PC/LAPTOP OR PEN DRIVE

METHOD #1 REMOVE SHORTCUT VIRUS USING CMD

There is nothing hard using CMD any non-technical person also can use this working CMD method to remove shortcut virus from the system. Just follow the below points:

1. Open CMD. (Go to Run > type CMD > hit enter)
2. Now you need to write one simple command. Just write the command which is shown below.

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

Now replace the “Drive-Name” with your drive name. Lets assume you want to remove the shortcut virus from the drive C then your command
will be attrib -h -s -r -a /s /d C:*.*

3. Now hit the enter button. And your all the shortcut virus will be removed. And now you can simply go back and delete the shortcut folder normally.

METHOD #2 REMOVE SHORTCUT VIRUS USING .BAT FILE

.Bat file is nothing but its an execution of any file. You can make a .bat file easily using notepad and you have to write the same command which I mentioned above. In case if the above CMD method don’t work try this. And also using this method you can remove the shortcut virus from all of your drive in just one single step while in CMD method you’ll have to do it separately one by one.

1. Open Notepad. (Run > type Notepad)
2. Copy the below code and paste it on the notepad file which you just opened.

   @echo off
   
   attrib -h -s -r -a /s /d Drive-Name:*.*
   
   attrib -h -s -r -a /s /d Drive-Name:*.*
   
   attrib -h -s -r -a /s /d Drive-Name:*.*
   
   @echo complete

3. Now replace the “Drive-Name” with your drive.
4. Save the notepad file as removevirus.bat and save it. Make sure you save file in desktop.
5. Now double click on the file and run it.
6. Now all the shortcut virus will be removed from your drives.