A Solution to the Shortcut Virus

There are a lot of viruses crawling on the web, one such piece is popularly known as Shortcut Virus. Today, I am providing you with a way to deal with it. To begin with, you should know that what it does to your computer.

So basically, this malicious program gets automatically activated when you plug in a removable storage, then it makes a new folder and renames it with a special character (Alt + 0160).

Now it cuts all the content in the storage and puts it in the created folder (Along with itself with some weird random name). 

Now it does the trickiest part, it changes the attributes of the folder to Hidden & System File. So that the windows recognize the content as system file does not show it.

How to access your files

1. Go to My Computer and click on  Tools. (You can press Alt once if don't see it).

2. Click on Folder Options.

3. Click on View tab.

4. Click on "Show hidden files, folders & drive".

5. Now move down a little and uncheck the option "Hide protected operating system files" and click on Yes when it displays a warning.

  

Now your files are accessible.

The Easy Way:-

You can also do it my way. 

Plug in your device. Open it, now hold down Shift and Right click.

Select "Open Command windows here";

Now type in  attrib /s -h -s -r * and press Enter. And You are done.