The recycler virus is also well known as the shortcut creator virus.
What It Does : It hides all your files and folders and creates shortcuts of 'em automatically. The recycler virus spreads very easily. By inserting an infected flash drive, memory card, hard drive or mass memory to your pc without an active antivirus you might just end up hosting recycler on your pc as well.
How To Get Rid Of The Recycler Virus : To get rid of the virus you need an active antivirus.
Personally i recommend Norton Internet Security.
How To Get Your Files Back : Here's the deal! Your files were never deleted. They were just hidden. To Unhide them you Need Either a File manager or Follow the below steps:
- Open My Computer
- Check for the drive letter of your Of the Infected Drive
- From The Above picture you'll see that the drive letter of My Removable Disk is J:
- Now Hold Shift on your keyboard and Right Click on the Corrupted Drive and select "open command prompt here".
- Now Copy The Below Code (Without the Quotes) and paste it in the command window you just opened "attrib -s -h *.* /S /D" .
- Allow it to do its thing and Bang! Your Files Are Back.
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