Pendrives/usb sticks are infected with viruses is a common thing,
some viruses are easily treated with a simple antivirus scan, while
others require much more work.
One of the most common virus symptoms of
usb drives is files disappearing while drive properties show that space
is occupied. Fear not! your files are just hidden, most of the times you
could easily
unhide
them through “tool>folder options>view>show hidden files and
folders
but there are cases wherein you still could not see your files.
Here is the step by step procedure to those files hidden by a virus.
1. Press Start and choose run.
2. On the dialog box type in cmd
3. On
the Command Prompt type in the drive letter followed by a colon
4. type
in “attrib *. -h -s /s /d“
5. if problem still persists try typing in
“attrib -r -a -s -h *.*“
Always remember to place a hidden folder
named “autorun.inf” on your usb stick, this usually helps prevent
infection on whatever computer you insert your pendrive on (incase your
drive gets contaminated)
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