Removing shotcut viruse from removable drives using DOS and LINUX

shortcut viruses creates an executable file same as the name of your folder .you can remove these types of viruse in two ways
1)using windows operating system

 a)click start ---> select Run ---->type cmd and press enter

 b)in command prompt type removable drive letter like G: and press enter

 c)type attrib -h -r -s /d  /s   *.*


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after this operation  open removable media you can see  shortcut of your folder as well as original folder remove shortcut files .
2)using linux
           a) open removable drive delete shotcut files with extension .lnk
           b)select all remaining files cut these files and paste in to any folder
           c)format pen drive and copy the files from folder to  removable drive


Idea:

 These viruses create an executable file same name as your folder and hide your original folder .Thus using command we make these folders visible and remove shortcut file