RECOVER HIDDEN FILES AND FOLDERS DUE TO VIRUS
August 24, 2013 at 11:35pm
How to solve Folders Showing as Shortcuts, Hidden in USB/Memory-Card/HDD
http://www.ethicalhackx.com/remove-shortcut-autorun-virus-from-pen-drive-complete-guide/ - Read here for a better guide
To remove such virus follow the steps
Open administrative command prompt.
Go to your pen-drive drive letter. Suppose your USB disk is G:. Type G: and press Enter
Now type the below command to remove system file, hidden read-only attribute
attrib -s -h -r /s /d *.*
Delete Autorun.inf from USB – Disk.
This makes all files visible and you are now able to delete them .
del *.lnk
Now to remove the shortcuts from pen-drive , Check the size of any One or Few Shortcuts, all be same.
Delete suspicious files, on errror check task manager for process with same name or any suspicious process and end it.
Open Explorer and right Click on Pen-drive , Click Open.
Search with Advance Search for all files of same size in Pen-drive.
Select All and Delete
August 24, 2013 at 11:35pm
How to solve Folders Showing as Shortcuts, Hidden in USB/Memory-Card/HDD
http://www.ethicalhackx.com/remove-shortcut-autorun-virus-from-pen-drive-complete-guide/ - Read here for a better guide
To remove such virus follow the steps
Open administrative command prompt.
Go to your pen-drive drive letter. Suppose your USB disk is G:. Type G: and press Enter
Now type the below command to remove system file, hidden read-only attribute
attrib -s -h -r /s /d *.*
Delete Autorun.inf from USB – Disk.
This makes all files visible and you are now able to delete them .
del *.lnk
Now to remove the shortcuts from pen-drive , Check the size of any One or Few Shortcuts, all be same.
Delete suspicious files, on errror check task manager for process with same name or any suspicious process and end it.
Open Explorer and right Click on Pen-drive , Click Open.
Search with Advance Search for all files of same size in Pen-drive.
Select All and Delete
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