Remove shortcut virus permanently from your PC,pendrive and USB

Well,are you looking for how to remove shortcut virus from your pc,pendrive or flash drives?There are certain kind of virus remover tools available which you can use to remove them successfully and permanently.And do you know removing shortcut virus is very simple even a child can do this easily if you follow the methods I mentioned here just go through the article.
Very commonly used external storage devices such as pendrives,SD cards,external hard disks,flash drives are used to transfer the data from one pc to another pc or mobile.When we try to connect these external devices to transfer sometimes an unknown malware automatically affects them and we can't open the file showing some error message.

This malware has a name and known as 'Shortcut virus' which converts every existing file into a shortcut.It is a program which generally spreads through the web,flash drives or through some third-party software, etc and creates a duplicate of your original files.When you click on those files,the virus multiplies itself and installs more virus and some malicious software.This virus hides your original files or folders in the same removable media and creates a shortcut with the same name.
This shortcut virus is so intelligent that even many of the antivirus software is unable to detect or correct it.If somehow any software discovers and delete,it somehow manages to recover itself.

Types of Shortcut Virus:

Shortcut virus is of two types; Out of these, the most common one is Flash drive shortcut virus and the other File and folder shortcut virus.

Flash drive shortcut virus:

Actually, this is a trojan virus which consolidates every file available on your portable device and keeps them in a hidden folder.Then it establishes a new shortcut file, a Flash disk shortcut.exe.No other alternative options will be given except to click it in order to see the files.And once they are executed, this virus starts installing malicious applications onto your device that spies your computing routine and tries to steal your personal information.This virus is so dangerous that it can send the personal details including the credit card information to the hackers.

File and folder shortcut virus:

This virus is a combination of both trojan and worm,which will duplicate your files,hide and replace it with a shortcut with .exe or .vbs extension etc.No other alternative options will be given except to click it in order to see the files.And once they are executed, this virus starts installing malicious applications onto your device that spies your computing routine and tries to steal your important data.

Methods to remove shortcut virus from SD card/pendrive/hard disk:

1.Remove shortcut virus using Command prompt(CMD)

Using command prompt is the best way to remove a shortcut virus and recover files as it doesn't require you to download any shortcut virus remover tool.

• Open the command prompt.Go to Start>Run>type 'cmd' and then press Enter.
• Then,enter the name of the drive which you wanted to remove the virus for example "f:' or "h:" and press Enter.
• Now,type this command and hit Enter.

“attrib f:*.* /d /s -h -r -s” or attrib-h-r-s/s/d f:\*.* (assuming f is the Drive Label for pendrive).

• Just wait for the process to finish completely and this will remove the virus from the pendrive.

2.Method to remove shortcut virus using Virus remover tools.

This method is commonly used when you don't want to perform manual tweaks to remove the virus.

• Download Shortcut virus remover.Click here to download.
• Now extract it using WinRAR or any other decompressor
• Run the shortcut virus remover tool and make sure you run it on your flash drive only.
• Choose which drive you want to scan and remove the virus (ex:E;,F:).Hit Scan.
• Wait until the scan is completed successfully and hit Enter.Then a list of all the shortcut virus available is shown.
• Click on the delete button.This will delete the virus from your PC.

How to remove shortcut virus in PC

After the successful removal of shortcut virus and re-inserted the portable pendrive or hard disk,if you still able to see those shortcut folders,then the problem is with your pc.For this,you need to clean the PC first and protect it before inserting any external devices.

For this,you can download any antivirus software and run it on your system to delete the shortcut virus.I recommend using Avast which is one of the best shortcut virus remover available in the market.When you install Avast on your computer,not even a single virus dare to infect your pc.Just install Avast antivirus and perform a Boot time scan,this will remove all the available virus in boot time.'Microsoft security essentials for Windows' even this works well.

How to remove shortcut virus permanently from your PC

• Open Windows Task manager on your pc by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc and go to process tab.
• Search for the process exe or any other such processes and right-click then End task.
• Press Windows key+R and type 'Regedit' and press Enter to open the Registry editor.
• Then navigate to the following key:

           HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run

• Search for the registry key "odwcamszas.exe" and right-click then select.You may not find the exact same key but search for some other junk values which do nothing.
• Now reboot your PC to save the changes.

Tips to avoid shortcut virus:

There are still some cases an antivirus can't detect a powerful virus.However, you can take some safety measures to avoid them to affect your pc.Just follow the instructions below.

1. Don't run flash drive from Autorun and from My computer.
2. Open your pendrive by right-clicking and then explore option or you can use type the address of the flash drive in the address bar provided.
3. Keep your Anti-virus up-to-date.
4. Don't use any harmful websites.