When you try to download information from a flash memory, sometimes it is found that there are shortcuts on the flash drive instead of folders. At the same time, these shortcuts take up as much space on removable media as regular folders with information. It becomes clear that the information from the flash card did not disappear, just the virus made it inaccessible to the user. And the user sees shortcuts instead of folders on his flash drive. How to fix this situation, which causes such a problem as it is necessary and not necessary for the user to act in this situation?
Problem prevention
Naturally, in order to avoid infection of your own computer and flash cards, you should not write files and folders from suspicious sources to removable media. All new files should be scanned by the antivirus utility.
But if, despite all the precautions, labels appeared instead of folders on the USB flash drive, the user can congratulate himself. Removable media is infected with one of the viruses - a trojan. The user is feverishly trying to open the disappeared folders by clicking on the shortcuts. It’s just not worth it to open suspicious shortcuts on a flash drive. The fact is that these icons hide in themselves not one program, but two. One of them launches a file that was originally recorded, and the second is a malicious program that launches a virus from an infected external device on a user's PC. It is this software that offers the user shortcuts instead of folders. What to do in such a situation? The procedure is described below.
Turn off autorun
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“Start” - “My Computer” - “Menu” - “Service” - “Folder Options” - “Tab” - “View”. The opened tab “View” offers two parameters with which you need to perform the following actions:
- The option “Hide protected systems. files (recommended) ”- you need to uncheck.
- The option "Show hidden folders and files" - accept the display of hidden folders and files.
If the operating system Windows 7 is installed, we find the necessary options this way:“Start” - “Control Panel” - “Appearance” - “Personalization” - “Folder Options” - “Tab” - “View”.
After that, all hidden and system files will become visible to the user.
Analysis of files and folders on a flash drive
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- C:\ user\ \appdata\roaming\.
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- C:\document&setting\ \ local setting\ application data\.
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For example, the file can be called 123.bat. After renaming, we double-click on this file with the mouse. A blank black window appears, as when invoking the command line. Now you need to wait until the file does its job. The time depends on how much information was on the flash drive. It took fifteen minutes for a fully loaded flash drive with a capacity of 8 GB to completely recover the information. After the file does its job, the black window will disappear by itself.- , . , , . RECYCLER. , . , .
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