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
