Here are the steps that we would recommend for a quick shortcut virus recovery. The files and folders that became shortcut were hidden by the virus. When flash drive has been infected with virus, some shortcut virus namely 1kb shortcut virus, all files and folders would show the shortcut and when you double clicking the shortcut, the virus that was hidden as a file. The files are all shortcuts and not opening, what kind of shortcut monster could do such wired job to all my documents? I am wondering whether it is possible to remove shortcut virus from pendrive without losing data. Hey guys, is there any usb shortcut virus remover to remove shortcut virus from pendrive permanently? What's killing me, the files on the usb drive not only the files, but also the folders all became shortcut all of sudden due to unknown virus attack.

Files Folders on USB Became Shortcut after Virus - 3 Fixings