How To Remove Shortcut Virus from SD Card/Hard Disk

Hey Guys, Shortcut Virus are  one of the most popular virus out there, This is a virus known as Shortcut Virus, it converts every file on the SD Card/Hard Disk to shortcut, This article will guide you on how to remove this virus from your SD Card/Hard disk.

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 SD Card and all files shown as Shortcut. This virus can affect any external storage like Flash Drives, External Hard disk, Phone Memory, Memory card or any Memory Stick, this is an anonymous malware which initially released online and spreading from one computer to another and we got Shortcut of files which are in USB drive if you try to open any file you will get error message.

             

How to Remove Shortcut Virus From Hard Disk / USB Drive.

If your USB drive doesn’t have important files you can try to Format it, but if 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“

Step 2. Navigate to Flash Drive by typing its letter. [ Let’s 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 .

It will take few seconds to recover all your files, Now open your Flash Drive you will get Back all of your files.

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 don’t find exact registry key then look for similar registry keys and search them on google to know what they do.

 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 Configuration, Go to Startup tab, and look for nkvasyoxww.vbs uncheck it from startup and hit OK.

There may be a different name for the VBS file, just make sure you don’t 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.

Watch Video Tutorial to Remove Shortcut Virus

This will remove Shortcut Virus from your Computer or Laptop if you face any problem feel free to comment below.

Make sure you have complete protection installed into your PC like AVG, Kaspersky Total Security or McAfee Total Protection if not please download and install Kaspersky Total Security/ McAfee Total Protection or any other antivirus which provide protection from all kind of threats.

Or you can also install a good free antivirus program but be having a full version of an antivirus give you a piece of mind and you stay safe from different types of malware like a virus, Trojan, rootkit etc

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