Evolution of mini or micro units of portable storage devices had greatly increased the number of Pendrive or Flash Drive users.
This evolution also led a way for widespread of autorun virus programs.
Autorun virus program can easily infect any flash drive , pendrives , memory cards etc
Autorun virus is transmitted by portable usb drives from one system to another.
An autorun virus infected usb , when connected to fresh pc (non infected) , the windows os automatically executes the virus program it get uploaded to system files. There after when a new virus free usb connected to this system gets infection...
Like this there occur a chain transmission of infection.
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Symptoms:
- All folders and files inside usb turns to be shortcut files
- Root files cant be accessed properly.
- A new folder named "Recycler" appears in the usb
Problems:
- Data Loss
- Data are Inaccessible
- When the virus files gets deleted by antivirus softwares whole data become in accessible, even shortcut to files wont work
How to Repair & Recover Data
Antivirus Scanning may not always give a positive result
So the below option is recommended for the getting successful recovery.
A software called Shortcut Virus Remover easily helps to recover usb from the infection of Autorun virus.
This software scan your usb for Autorun Virus, if it detects it will delete the virus.
Automatically your Shortcut virus gets removed
Perfect way to Remove Shortcut virus and recover datas.
