How To Remove Shortcut Virus/Trojan From Computer If Your Computer Is Affected

Hi, Today I am going to brief you about How to remove shortcut Virus/Trojan from Computer. As our computer gets affected with virus we get stuck at some point and can’t proceed further thus we need to stop or remove such activities, our today’s article will definitely help you to remove shortcut viruses from computer. Usually we use windows and we face the problem of viruses/Trojan and malware’s because of window’s open structure and direct execution of .exe so we strongly need to fix this issue.

1.        a. Open the Command Prompt. You can find it under "Accessories" or just search for "CMD" on search bar of your Windows computer.

b. Find out in what drive of your computer the virus/shortcut is located. Go to My Computer (for Windows 7 or below) or This PC; you'll notice the C, D, E, etc drives.

c. Go to CMD and type in the commands .For example, the virus is located in "F" drive, then just type attrib-h-r-s / s / df: \ *. *. The F beside the D is your drive; simply change it to where drive the virus is located.

-h: to unhide all files on drive W

-r: create the files in drive W is free of read-only attribute.

-s: making all files on drive W to be not part of the system again, so easy in the clear

f: w drive

*. *: All files ending in

d. Press Enter. The bigger the files, the longer the processing takes.

Wait until you see "C\: Users...” again. It means that drive will unhide all the folders in your drive .e. Check your drive again. The folders are now retrieved together with the shortcut viruses.

Remove unnecessary files, the shortcut files that are not supposed to be there.

You might find autorun.inf or desktop.ini; simply delete them.

2.        Till now we have seen above 1 method to remove shortcut viruses now we are going to do it with command prompt (cmd). In this procedure we will write some commands which will get executed and remove shortcut viruses

• Go to Window Button press it type in search “cmd” right click on it
• select “Run as administrator”
• Type Following command on it
• attrib -h-s-r-a /s /d Drive _ letter (like H ,C, D )
• Now just hit the enter key
• This command will follow its procedure you just have to wait for it
• OK you are now done with it.

 Just open the notepad

Now copy the following code and paste it into notepad

“

3.     @echo off

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

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

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

@echo complete”

ü  Now save this file with virusremover.bat name

ü  Just replace the Name_drive with infected drive name , if you are having  3 or more drive then simply copy and paste this command.

ü  Save and Close this file

ü  Now run it

By:- Vishal Kumar