Thursday, July 26, 2012

Files Hidden by Virus. How to Unhide Them?

The Solution

1. Insert the thumb drive to an empty USB slot. Take note the drive letter. For an example, F:.
2. Press Windows + R, and type “cmd“. Ok.

3. Enter this command,
            attrib -s -h -r f:/*.* /s /d
4. Press Enter and wait for the command to execute.
5. Open the thumb drive and you should see the files that were hidden by the virus.

Conclusion

Hopefully with this guide you can help your friends to solve the same problem. And yes, I also hope this guide will solve your files hidden by virus problem too. My friend believe me, university is the best place for virus to spread!
PS: All folders in your thumb drive become shorcut? I got the solution here:)
PPS: If your PC still having problem, you can either scan your PC with antivirus or repair it to speed up by using Registry Easy.

May God bless the author of this article (cypherhackz), he helped me when I was much stressed by viruses.