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You can select the USB flash drive or any other location that you wish. It is a small-sized direct utility which on opening will ask you for the location from where you want to remove the shortcut virus.

Firstly, download the Shortcut Virus Remover tool.

In such cases, you can use two easy methods to recover your data. The data is almost unreadable after the virus follows up with its action.

When the USB flash-drive is inserted, the shortcut virus converts all your files into shortcuts, leading to corruption of data. Shortcut viruses are one of the most common infections found in Windows computers.

You can click here to check our review for the same. One such example is the BitDefender Total Security which works flawlessly on my machine. Want more protection? You can look for a good paid Anti-Virus program that can provide you a real-time security protection along with other useful features. Tip: Keep your antivirus up to date so it should detect the new viruses. Install an antivirus program on your PC and whenever you connect your flash drive to the PC, first scan it with the antivirus program then move the files from the flash drive to the PC.

It will automatically search and install the update.

Switch to “Update” tab and click on “Update Definitions”.

Hit Windows key and type “Windows Defender”.

Windows defender should be turned on and updated every time so your PC will be protected from viruses. If you connect any virus infected USB flash drive to your PC, Windows defender will notify you about threats from the flash drive and quarantined them until you remove them using the Windows Defender. Now your PC will not autoplay any flash drive even it was infected with viruses and your will not be infected with any viruses.

Enable the turn-off autoplay setting from the right pane.

Using the left pane navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Autoplay Policies.

Steps to disable the auto run feature in Windows: