Shortcut virus in our desktop computer or in our pen drive is a very annoying problem. It actually shows when some one attach their affected pen drive with our computer or laptop and our computer or laptop also gets affected with this shortcut virus. Actually this is not a virus rather this is a “VBS Script”. If you want to remove shortcut virus from your computer permanently then you will have to follow the below steps:
You can read an useful article which is describes about virus protection tips.
For a Computers Which are not Affected by Shortcut Virus:
If your computer is still not affected by the shortcut virus but you want to be in the safe side, then the below steps are for you,
- Go to the “Run” of your computer. (just press windows button + r and then you will get the Run tab.)
- Now, you wil have to write wscript.exe and need to press on ENTER.
- Set 1 to “Stop script after specified number of seconds” and then click “Apply” and OK.
- Great! You are done and secured now. No shortcut virus from others computer will not enter into your computer now.
- What’s the Difference Between Getting Hacked and Getting a Virus?
For a Computers Which are Already Affected by Shortcut Virus:
- Press on Ctl+Shift+Esc
- Go to process tab
- Now select wscript.exe file
- Click on “End Process”
- Go to the C:/ of your computer
- Search wscript in the search box
- All the files that comes out with the name wscript, delete them with shift+delete
- Those files which are not getting deleted, skip those.
- Now, go to the RUN
- you wil have to write wscript.exe and need to press on ENTER.
- Set 1 to “Stop script after specified number of seconds” and then click “Apply” and OK.
- Great! Your computer is now shortcut virus free
For the Affected Pen Drive:
- Attach your pen drive to your computer through the USB
- Now, go to cmd (go to run and then type cmd then press enter to go to command)
- Type the drive letter of your pen drive (like for my case the pen drive drive letter is E:)
- Write this code correctly attrib -s -h /s /d *.*
- Press on ENTER
- Check whether you can see all your files in your pendrive or not
- Keep the important files from your pen drive and then format your pendrive
- To format files from command window just write format and it will ask for your confirmation, confirm and start formatting.
Following the above steps you can keep your computer or pen drive shortcut virus free. If you find the post helpful then share this with your friends.