{"id":11110,"date":"2017-05-05T13:19:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T07:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/?p=11110"},"modified":"2017-05-05T13:19:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T07:49:55","slug":"remove-shortcut-virus-using-command-prompt-cmd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/remove-shortcut-virus-using-command-prompt-cmd\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Remove a Shortcut Virus Using Command Prompt (CMD)"},"content":{"rendered":"

How To Remove a Shortcut Virus Using Command Prompt –\u00a0<\/strong>Today we are going to discuss about how to\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>remove shortcut viruses<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0from pen drives, memory cards, external hard disks. This is the best technique to remove viruses from the external drives. Normally we connect the external drives, sometimes a shortcut can be made. Just follow these steps to\u00a0Remove Shortcut Viruses using command prompt.<\/strong><\/p>\n[ad type=”square”]\n

These are the Best tricks to\u00a0<\/strong>remove a shortcut virus using command prompt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This problem may cause not only in pen drives, also in memory sticks, phone memories, external hard disks etc. If we trying to open those folders Windows will show an error that \u201cShortcut missing\u2026!\u201d We afraid of losing our data and somebody format the drive. But no need to afraid for this and format. Yes, this is a type of virus affection. Just follow the simple steps to\u00a0remove that shortcuts and retrieve your folders back.<\/strong><\/p>\n

How to Remove a Shortcut Virus Using Command Prompt<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
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  1. You will have to Go to start menu and type \u201ccmd\u201d<\/strong> in the search box or Start then choose \u201d all programs \u201d then \u201d accessories \u201d and select \u201d command prompt \u201c.<\/li>\n
  2. Open the infected drive such as write, g: to go to G drive.<\/li>\n
  3. Now type dir\/w\/a<\/strong>\u00a0. It will show all the files of the drive including hidden files. Identify malicious files and delete them using above commands.<\/li>\n
  4. Locate AUTORUN.INF or any Virus and other suspicious files in the directory. There was no virus in my drive so only autorun.inf is been highlighted.<\/li>\n
  5. Type command attrib -r \u2013a \u2013s \u2013h<\/strong>\u00a0to remove attributes of corresponding file.<\/li>\n
  6. Type del autorun.inf<\/strong>\u00a0to delete autorun.inf file.<\/li>\n
  7. Now type del virus name.exe<\/strong>\u00a0 delete it, eg : del xyz.exe .<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n[ad type=”banner”]\n

    Now you can access the defected drive without affecting the virus.<\/p>\n

    How to Remove a Shortcut Virus Using Command Prompt<\/strong>: By using these notepad tricks you can\u00a0easily remove viruses from the external drives<\/strong>\u00a0and have a great experience with the method. If you are still have trouble and you are not able to\u00a0remove shortcut viruses<\/strong>\u00a0from your computer, Hard Disk, Pen Drive and memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    How to Remove a Shortcut Virus Using Command Prompt (CMD) – PC – how to remove shortcut viruses from pen drives, memory cards, external hard disks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5739,3092],"tags":[34014,34021,34028,32921,34020,34027,34024,34023,34016,34026,34025,32920,32903,34015,34019,32898,3133,34013,34009,34022,34018,34017,32923,34012,34010,34011],"class_list":["post-11110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-security","tag-how-to-remove-a-shortcut-virus-using-command-prompt-cmd","tag-how-to-remove-shortcut-virus","tag-how-to-remove-shortcut-virus-from-hard-disk","tag-how-to-remove-shortcut-virus-from-laptop","tag-how-to-remove-shortcut-virus-from-pc","tag-how-to-remove-shortcut-virus-from-pc-permanently","tag-how-to-remove-shortcut-virus-from-pendrive","tag-how-to-remove-shortcut-virus-from-usb","tag-how-to-remove-shortcut-virus-from-usb-using-command-prompt","tag-how-to-remove-shortcut-virus-in-pendrive","tag-how-to-remove-shortcut-virus-in-usb","tag-how-to-remove-shortcut-virus-in-windows-7","tag-how-to-remove-shortcut-virus-using-cmd","tag-how-to-remove-shortcut-virus-using-command-prompt","tag-remove-shortcut-virus","tag-remove-shortcut-virus-using-cmd","tag-remove-virus","tag-remove-virus-from-pc","tag-shortcut-virus-remover","tag-shortcut-virus-remover-cmd","tag-shortcut-virus-remover-download","tag-shortcut-virus-remover-software","tag-shortcut-virus-remover-tool","tag-usb-virus-remover","tag-virus-remover","tag-virus-shortcut-remover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}