Do not bother as there is a way to get over this problem. If you had any crucial data in files or folders which turned to shortcut then you start panicking. The shortcut virus hence moved into your pen drive when connected to the computer. The computer from which you had moved software might have not protected against viruses and shortcut virus might have entered into the system. In above situation, the files might have got corrupted due to virus infection. You will get the same situations faced by people and posted in some blogs about their problems as given here. Please help me to get back access to files in my pen drive. These files which turned into shortcuts are very important to me as they are related to my work. When I was using pen drive on my computer at home, few files on it are showing icons of shortcut files when I clicked on these shortcut files, files were not opening. Last day I moved software from office PC to install it on another system.

It was working properly before I used it on my office computer. “Hi, I have got a problem with my pen drive.

How to recover from shortcut virus