Hi All,
Welcome back,
Many times our usb disks or hardisks will be affected with virus and all the folders will become shortcuts. When you double click on the shortcuts virus gets affected.
But actually, all folders will be hidden as operating system files and we cannot see or edit it, unless we disable the option (hide protected operating system files) in folder options.
We can remove this virus, to do this please follow below;
First of all, Disable autorun in your desktop -->
- Create restore point before doing this, so that any problem we can restore the system.
- Open notepad and key in below string (just copy and paste).
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
@="@SYS:DoesNotExist"
- Save it as <filename>.reg
- Double click the file for this reg entry to be created.
Then, delete autorun.inf file from USB disk or hard disk.
- Disable HIDE protected operating system files from folder options
- Then delete only the shortcuts (Note - only shortcuts)
- Then go to command prompt and execute the below command at command mode.
attrib -s -h -a /s /d <drive letter of USB>:\*.*
- Then all the hidden folders will be unhide it.
Hope this was helpful. Please comment if it is not working.
yours Lovingly,
Kishore Soma
Welcome back,
Many times our usb disks or hardisks will be affected with virus and all the folders will become shortcuts. When you double click on the shortcuts virus gets affected.
But actually, all folders will be hidden as operating system files and we cannot see or edit it, unless we disable the option (hide protected operating system files) in folder options.
We can remove this virus, to do this please follow below;
First of all, Disable autorun in your desktop -->
- Create restore point before doing this, so that any problem we can restore the system.
- Open notepad and key in below string (just copy and paste).
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
@="@SYS:DoesNotExist"
- Save it as <filename>.reg
- Double click the file for this reg entry to be created.
Then, delete autorun.inf file from USB disk or hard disk.
- Disable HIDE protected operating system files from folder options
- Then delete only the shortcuts (Note - only shortcuts)
- Then go to command prompt and execute the below command at command mode.
attrib -s -h -a /s /d <drive letter of USB>:\*.*
- Then all the hidden folders will be unhide it.
Hope this was helpful. Please comment if it is not working.
yours Lovingly,
Kishore Soma