Comments on: How To Remove Pendrive Shortcut Virus From Your USB Drive And Computer

By: jamesfell

jamesfell — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 10:59:21 +0000

Connect your pendrive to your system.

Launch the Command Prompt application.

Make sure to launch the Command Prompt application with administrator rights.

Now, type your pendrive’s letter in the cmd window.

Tap the Enter button on your system keyboard.

Now, enter the del *.Ink command. Press Enter

Next, type attrib -s -r -h *.* /s.d

Tap Enter. Now the shortcut virus will be removed from your pendrive.

By: facebook

facebook — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 06:28:02 +0000

This is a really good article. This article follows my Pendrive to clean the virus. The problem is solved.

By: Pratik Gaur

Pratik Gaur — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:29:57 +0000

I’ve problem like this please read carefully:
my pendrives name is PRATIK and when i open my pendrive it shows a folder with shortcut icon and the folder name shows (PRATIK 16GB) and then i open this folder it takes time to open and shows the files, but when i insert my drive into anothers PC this folder not opens and shows the folder is empty. Please i request you to solve my problem.

By: Aditya sunil Kolte

Aditya sunil Kolte — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 21:43:43 +0000

In reply to Usman Khurshid. My pendrive has FAT32 file system but still it's showing access denied

By: Usman Khurshid

Usman Khurshid — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 05:04:48 +0000

In reply to Abdul Rahaman. Sometimes ownership is not given to the administrator in NTFS file system. Please try to take ownership of the complete folder and give yourself full NTFS permissions. Then try the command again.

By: Abdul Rahaman

Abdul Rahaman — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 00:49:42 +0000

In reply to Usman Khurshid. Yes even after running cmd as administrator

By: Mudike

Mudike — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 10:22:13 +0000

Thank You, easy way to recover pendrive data

By: NIMISHA JAIN

NIMISHA JAIN — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 11:04:08 +0000

I still could not get the solution to the problem. When i am cleaning all the shortcuts i.e. .lnk files I am getting a msg access is denied, and after that I am typing in that command (attri…) then nothing happens.

By: James Creche

James Creche — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 21:31:00 +0000

In reply to Usman Khurshid. I am and it's giving me that problem

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 18:40:28 +0000

Sir, I did all this and I dont know why… But there were No such files-fypuas.exe and fypuasx.exe. when hijackthis scanned the computer… So i went on to the next step of the command prompt and amazingly the problem was solved…but…. Then when i again reinserted my pendrive… The problem returned-same shortcut file of my USB…. Plz try to find a solution…i will be so very grateful…Thanks