How to Get Rid of Shortcut Virus?

Have you ever noticed your folders suddenly disappearing in the Pen Drive or HDD which you have copied recently.
This happens because your folder might have been changed to "System Hidden" folders.
Well!! People call it a short cut virus which hides your folder automatically and creates a short-cut which is obviously inaccessible.
This happens mostly in the pen-drives.
Before starting, just to make sure that it is really short-cut virus,do the following.
Open MyComputer-->Tools-->View
Click on View tab. Check Show hidden folders option and Uncheck "Hide Protected Operating..."

Now press ok and navigate to the parent folder of the hidden one.
If you are able to see your folder like a hidden one, then you are lucky that you can recover it by the following method.

So here is how you can get rid of it.

Step 1: Detect the driver letter for the pen drive. For example lets assume it is E:

Step 2: Open Run and type cmd and press enter.

Step 3: Copy the path of the folder(say "E:\Parent Folder").
            Change the drive accordingly by typing E: and press enter.
            Type "cd pathofthefolder" and  press enter.
            In this case it should be "cd E:\Parent Folder".

Step 4:  Now type the following command to revoke the attribute of system hidden folders.
             "attrib -h -s -r test"

Note: test is the folder name which turned into a shortcut.
After pressing enter you should be able to see the folder. If not refresh the page.
Below SS should help you understand it more clearly.