Solved: Files On USB Pen Drive Becomes Shortcuts After Virus Infection

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All, 

There are times when your USB flash drive may get infected with some virus due to which the flash driveicon may change in my computer, or when you might see some exe files looking like folders in each folder on your computer, although both of these virus infection are now quite old these days, recently I saw a different kind of virus infection on flash drive in which all the folder and file changed to shortcut after virus infection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you encounter such a kind of situation don’t panic as your files and folder on the flash drive are intact, and they are not damaged so you can still retrieve the files on your USB Pen drive. Follow the procedure below to recover the files and folder which are actually hidden and not visible to you.

 

1. Download “AutorunExterminator” from the link below
http://www.softpedia.com/downloadTag/autorun+exterminator

Once Extract it, run its executable and plug your USB pendrive now. This will remove the autorun.inf files from your pendrive and also from the drives on your computer hard disk.

2. Click on Start >> Run >> type cmd and click on OK. Here we assume your pendrive letter as x: Enter thiscommand written below.

attrib -h -r -s /s /d x:*.*

Note: You can copy the above command –> Right-click in the Command Prompt and paste it.

Note: Don’t forget to replace the letter x with your pen drive letter.

3. Press Enter

We hope this might solve your problem as it worked a number of times in our case.

Removal of “Produced by An Autodesk Educational Product “

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Recently one of my customers face a problem with Autodesk Autocad 2009 version. They received a autodesk autocad drawing file from some sources and as soon as they open the file they get an error dialog saying : “Produced by An Autodesk Autocad Product”. Thus as soon as they plot the drawing they also get the same stamping on the print out also. Not only that the same problem cause Autocad to perform slower then it works with the file created with the license version. So in order to resolve the issue we find out the following solution.

autodeskeducational.png

  1. Open the file giving error with the above message.
  2. Once the file is opened in Autocad then type “dxfout” in the command line at the bottom of the drawing area and press enter.
  3. On doing so you will find a “Save As” dailog appeared in front of you. Save the file with desired name at a location from where you can access the file easily.
  4. After saving the file type “dxfin” in the command line which will enable to import the .dxf file. When you are asked to open a .dxf file kindly browse and select the saved file in step 3.
  5. Once you get the .dxf file opend then save the same file with .dwg extension.
  6. After performing the above steps try to open the new .dwg file. Hopefully the “Produced by An Autodesk Educational Product” stamp should be removed from the file.

We wish the above solution might work for you.