Lately I have been asked about the pen drive shortcut virus by quite a few people including users of iTechtics through the comments on other articles. The symptom of this virus is that all the folders you copy to your USB drive will be converted to shortcuts. If you double click the sh...
Virus or malware infection– A virus infection or malware attack on the pen drive can also make it write-protected. So, if you’re struggling to access a write-protected pen drive, you should know that there are several methods to remove write protection from your pen drive or USB. This ...
Best Ways to Remove Write Protection from Your Pen Drive: Write protection seems to be tedious task and it can be frustrating at times to handle the issues how to remove write protection from pen drive. You may find it difficult to transfer files to your pen drive. In most pen drives ...
Method 4: Format your Pen Drive to remove the virus from Pendrive This is the last option to eliminate viruses from your pen drive. Even if the antivirus software can’t remove the virus, go for “Quick Format.” Before performing this option, ensure you have backed up your essential dat...
How to Remove Shortcut Virus from Hard Disk/USB/Pen Drive Without Losing Data When all the files and folders become shortcuts and unopenable in your hard disk, USB, pen drive, or external hard drive, your drive is infected by shortcut virus. So how to remove shortcut virus form hard ...
Permanently Remove Shortcut Virus from Pen Drive: Shortcut virus is a virus which Enters into your Pen drive, PC, Hard Disk, Memory cards or mobile phone
Is your device infected with the shortcut virus? Follow the step-by-step tutorial to remove shortcut virus from USB flash drive, pen drive, SD card, hard drive using cmd and shortcut virus removal tools, etc., without losing data.
Since the reasons for write protection in USB/pen drive are different, some steps may fail to remove write protection from USB drives. If so, please skip the step to try the next step. Conclusion Don't worry when you meet "the disk is write protected." This is the whole process of r...
Start a virus scanning. When it completes, restart your computer and check if you’veremoved the write protection from the USB drive. Solution 5: Run CHKDSK Command If there is any disk error in your USB drive, it can cause the disk become read-only. In this case, you can fix the er...
Insert your Virus infect Pendrive and Scan for virus, if detected then well and good otherwise go ahead to remove it from command prompt. In my case it has detected the virus even though I would like show you, how to remove this virus using command prompt?