Windows-10 virus

How to Remove Virus Using CMD in Windows 10

You can remove virus from your infected Drive or USB using CMD. Most virus create shortcut or super hide all data’s or change index path of data in drive. follow below steps to remove viruses from your computer drive or Flash Drive.

Step 1. In the search bar, type CMD then right-click on “Command Prompt” and choose “Run as an administrator”.

Step 2. Type X: and press “Enter”. ( ‘X’ is infected drive letter )

Step 3. Type attrib -s -h -r -a /s /d *.* . and hit “Enter”.

Step 4. Now type del autorun.inf and hit Enter

CommandExplanation
attribSet attribute
schange file type as system file
hHidden attribute
rRead permission control
aArchive a file or directory
/ssearch throughout including sub folder
/dinclude any process folder

You can make a Batch file to automate the process. but you need to open batch file as notepad and change drive path accordingly.

@echo off
X:
attrib -s -h -r -a /s /d *.*
del autorun.inf
exit

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