
After connecting your USB drive, Open Run command prompt and type this command, attrib –h –r –s g:\*.* /s /d along with the spaces. The best employed method to recover data from shortcut virus affected USB drive is given here. How to resolve shortcut virus infected USB drive? However, data will be safe in these scenarios. In rest of the cases, files will be marked as shortcut and such files cannot be opened / accessed at any cost. Other times, pen drive will get detected normally but will show no data present in it as files will be hidden. USB flash drive when affected by harmful viruses will not get initialized on system.

Even if the system is free from malicious spyware USB drive connected to it can get virus infected when user browse and open suspicious sites in internet. USB flash drive usually gets affected by malicious malware when it is connected to virus infected system to transfer files to/from pen drive. How does a USB pen drive get infected by viruses? As pen drive is the most convenient way of transferring data from one system to another, it is very prone to virus infection. Shortcut virus like Trojan horse generic32.tnu will either cause inaccessibility of files or makes them hidden from Windows Explorer.

Viruses are the most dreadful programs that alter data on storage devices making it corrupt and inaccessible.

The only solution to get rid of this issue is first remove shortcut virus from your USB drive without losing data files, and then use Yodot Hard Drive Recovery, a reliable data recovery software to recover files affected with shortcut virus. When your USB drive is affected by shortcut virus, all it's files and folders will become shortcuts, which you cannot access or open.
