How to unhide hidden folders in the flash drive ,that causes by autorun virus

One of My Free PC Clinic user ask me this question ,may be you also have the same problem.

My pen drive/flash drive had a virus attack. I remove them with my Anti-Virus.But all folders in the pen drive are become hidden. but files are visible.

I try to change the attributes by right clicking on folder and try change attribute using folder properties as shown in the image. it’s not working.





I used control panel-folder option-view-show hidden files.... but it also not working.



Now how do I unhide hidden folders in my Flash drive.


Yes you can unhide all of your hidden folder by changing file attribute.
To do this ,

(1) Click "Start" -->"Run"
(2) Type "cmd" at Run dialog to run command prompt /or you can go start->programs->accessories->Command Prompt
(3) In command prompt type your flash drive's drive letter (It's depend on your PC ,it may be f ,e ,g,h or other letter) with a colon and press Enter.(I have given a picture)
(4) Change file attribute by typing "Attrib -a -s -r -h /s /d" and press Enter.(I have given a picture)



- Clears an attribute.

R Read-only file attribute.
A Archive file attribute.
S System file attribute.
H Hidden file attribute.

/S Processes matching files in the current folder
and all subfolders.
/D Processes folders as well.

That's all , Now you should view all of your hidden files and folder in your pen drive that causes by autorun virus.

How to remove and prevent autorun.inf virus

Viruses Infecting From USB Flash Drive , USB Pen Drive , USB Thumb drive or USB Memory Stick

USB flash drives or pen drives (also called memory stick) are flash memory data storage device integrated with a USB connector. Flash drives are very small, lightweight, removable, rewritable and portable. They hold incredibly large amounts of data and letting you transport your most valuable computer data in more reliable way. USB flash drives offer potential advantages over other portable storage devices specially the floppy disk.

Autorun Viruses Infecting From USB Flash Drive

These viruses usually spread by the removable storage devices like USB Flash drives. They disable the Task Manager, CMD (command prompt), Registry Editor , Policy Editor and hide “Folder Option” in the Tools menu of the infected pc.

They appear with the similar name to the windows service (system files ) such as SVCHOST.exe. Following are some of the names which are used by this virus to appear as system service files. SVCHOTS.EXE , SSVICHOSST.EXE, SVICHOSSST.EXE, RVHOST.EXE, SVICHOSST.EXE, etc.

After infected they will hide all of your folders in the flash drive and virus application files are appear as your folders. When you double click to open folders the virus application running and will start to run virus process.

Not only that , they do many things to harm your pc.

How to remove them ?

Here after I'm going to explain how to remove them through this blog same as my site
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