How To Remove Shortcut Virus and Autorun.inf

Autorun Virus is a program which uses the autorun feature of your Windows OS.

Whenever you open a removable drive or your internal hard drive, the autorun.inf virus starts executing. It spreads from one drive to another, and this create unwanted dump files in you Windows OS. This slows down your PC and affects its performance. It may also connect to malicious site and install key logger in your system.

How to Delete/Remove Autorun.inf Virus from USB pendrive or Hard Drive Disk in Windows.
Do you complain about a file named “autorun” being created automatically whenever you insert a USB to your PC? You try to delete it each time but it recreates itself. You try to scan it out through your antivirus program but it is unable to detect it. You feel helpless. It becomes quite frustrating.There is nothing you can do to deal with it. So, I’m gonna help you out of it. I will tell you the procedure to remove Autorun.inf Virus from your USB or Hard disk.

Steps to delete shortcut virus

1. First, is enough to delete this virus the use of a good anti-virus program such as Avast, which eliminates this type of viruses.

So, delete the antivirus you are using, and download the free version of Avast from HERE, then Update it.

(this is an important step before you start scanning your computer).

After completing this step, you will notice that the program has found several viruses, delete it and go for the second step.

2. Avast (free version) may be inadequate in some cases, in order to delete all the viruses in the computer, we will use Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.
- download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware by clicking HERE, install it (before use it you need to update it).

then, start a full scan for your hard drives.

at the end of scan you'll see a list of viruses detected, delete it all and restart your computer.
Scan your computer or the infected drive with these two softwares, If you have more time, you can scan the whole system so that it can remove all the viruses and spywares in your computer.

and for Recover your data from your hard drive or removable USB flash drive, you need just to unhide it, actually your files and folders are not lost. The virus has made the files and folders become hidden.

Go to My Computer > Tools Tab > Folder Options...

View > Look for Hidden Files and Folders > Click at Show hidden files and folders > Check the Hide extensions for known file types and Hide protected operating system files

Now you can see your data files and folders.

This method is enough to eliminate this virus.

 

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