Thursday, August 15, 2013

How to remove Shortcut Virus without antivirus software

                Now a days, all PC users  are irritating from new virus which creates shortcuts in your pen-drive This virus is not removed by many famous antivirus software like Avira, McAfee, Avast,Quick-heal etc.

But you can remove this virus very easily in only three steps!!!!!!!

1. Open task manager by pressing ctrl+shift+esc. go to the process and end the process of wscript.exe <or> vbscript.exe.
2. Open temp folder in following path C:\Users\"user_name"\AppData\Local\Temp  or open run and type %temp%.Now  search *.vbs file and permanently delete it.
3. Open run window and type msconfig then in startup window disable the startup of *.vbs or wscript.

all done now formet the pendrive and reinsert it now shortcut will not create if you want to make recovery of pendrive data then open cmd and type following coomand attrib -r -s -h /s /d g:\*.*


Note: Next time  turn auto play off in control panel  and always open  pendrive by right click on drive and choose open in new window option, so auto-run files will not run and virus will not enter in your pc.  I hope my instructions will help you.