How To Remove Shortcut Virus From USB Flash Drive and Computer

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How to Remove Shortcut Virus from USB Flash Drive

and Computer.
By: Sandeep Singh | Last Updated: October 10, 2017 177 Comments
Pendrive, SD Cards or Flash drives are very common device to transfer data from one computer to another, also
sometimes we get errors while connecting Pendrive to Computer and during data transfer one of them is
Shortcut Error, basically, this is a Virus known as Shortcut virus, it converts every file into shortcut in Pendrive /
Hard drive, this article will guide you to remove shortcut virus from your flash drive as well as computer.
What is Shortcut Virus and How does it Spread.

When we connect a flash drive to an infected computer and transfer any file it automatically infect Pendrive and
all files shown as Shortcut. This virus can affect any external storage like Flash Drives, External Hard disk,
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Phone Memory, Memory card or any Memory Stick, this is an anonymous malware which initially released online
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and spreading from one computer to another and we got Shortcut of files which are in USB drive if you try to
settings.
open any file you will get error message.
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How to Remove Shortcut Virus From Pendrive / USB
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Drive.
If your USB drive doesnt have important files you can tryNo to Way
Format it, but if Yes
it contains important files then you
are not going to format it, to Remove Shortcut Virus follow the Steps Below.
Step 1. Go to Start and Search for cmd, as it appears in start menu Right Click on it and Click Run as
Administrator
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Step 2. Navigate to Flash Drive by typing its letter. [ Lets Say it is i ], to find your USB drive letter open My
Computer and check for letter, type i: and hit enter.
Step 3. Type del *.lnk (without quote) in cmd window and Hit Enter on your Keyboard.
Step 4. Now type attrib -s -r -h *.* /s /d /l ( without quote ) and hit Enter .

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It will take few seconds to recover all your files, Now open your Flash Drive you will get Back all of your files.
[Any mistake in above command may cause data loss so be careful while executing del *.lnk command]
How to Remove Shortcut Virus from Computer.

Once you recover files into USB drive you can use them but if you again plug in USB Flash drive into the infected
computer your flash drive will infect again, so it is better to remove the source of this virus i,e infected the
computer, follow the steps below to remove shortcut virus from the computer.
Step 1. First open Task Manager by pressing Ctrl + Alt + del Or Right Click on the taskbar and click on Task
manager.
Step 2. Go to Process tab and look for process Wscript.exe, Scroll down and find any such process, Now Right
Click on it and Click on End Task.
Step 3. Now go to Start and search for regedit, open it you will get Registry Editor navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run
Here look for Registry Key odwcamszas if found then right-click on it and delete this registry key. If you dont
find exact registry key then look for similar registry keys and search them on google to know what they do.

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This will remove Shortcut Virus from your Computer, if not then try these steps.
1. Press windows + R key, you will get Run box, type %temp% here and hit OK, now temp folder will be open
look for file nkvasyoxww.vbs and delete it.
2. Go to C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup. Check

Startup folder if nkvasyoxww.vbs exist here then delete it.
3. Press Windows + R key, type msconfing into the run dialog box and hit OK, it will open System
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nkvasyoxww.vbs uncheck it from startup and hit OK.
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a different name for the VBS file, just make sure you dont have any file with an unusual name and
VBS extension at the startup, registry, and temp folder.
In Windows 8, Open Task Manager and go to Startup tab, disable nkvasyoxww.vbs from here.
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