Show Hidden Files Corrupted By Virus In PC

BySwati Khandelwal Last Updated on

We do believe that everyone has experience with computer viruses and most of it is a bad experience. Today I will share 3 simple steps to show hidden files corrupted by virus Infections in windows PC. This tips and trick purpose is to help you who have difficulties showing hidden files because of virus infection.

This tips and trick are for Windows users because the most virus in the wild is targeting the Windows operating system since they have the largest users in the world.

How to Show Hidden Files Corrupted by Virus Infection

Step 1. This is the screenshot of my USB content after I plug into infected computer.

Files Corrupted By Virus in Windows PC

The virus hides all my files and folders as well and changes everything into a shortcut that calls Documents.vbe when executed.

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The virus changes the files and folders attribute by using the system user, so when you try to change the attribute by right-clicking it, you can’t change a hidden attribute.

File Attribute

Step 2. Open your command prompt and go to your USB drive. In our case the USB is in E: drive.

attrib -H -S E:* /S /D
Show Hidden Files Corrupted By Virus in PC Using Command Prompt

Here is what an attribute stands for and what it does in command prompt.

  • H: Hidden file attribute
  • S: System file attribute
  • E:*: Drive of the USB with * as a wildcard that means process all files.
  • S: Processes matching files in the current folder and all subfolders.
  • D: Processes folders as well.

Step 3. Turn off Autorun for all of the removable media. And remember Do not double-click your USB folder to prevent the virus from spreading into your system.

To delete the virus manually, you can open REGEDIT, choose EDIT tab and click Find (Ctrl + F).

Delete Virus in PC Using Registry Hacks

In the search box type “documents.vbe”. If your search result returns nothing it’s mean that you’re not infected by this kind of virus if your search result returns some value like the picture below:

Hidden Files Cause By Virus Infection in PC

Write down the Documents.vbe path location, and delete the Documents.vbe manually from that folder. If you cannot delete the Documents.vbe because it is used by another program, go to task manager(CTRL+ALT+DEL) and find Wscript.exe.

Right-click and choose “End Task” to stop the Wscript.exe process and try again to delete the Documents.vbe. Don’t forget to delete the registry containing Documents.vbe too.

That’s it you have successfully recovered hidden files caused by virus infection in the PC. In this way, you can show hidden files corrupted by virus in PC.

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Swati is a Security Advisor and Penetration Tester, who spends half of her day reading and writing about tech and hacking. She has extensive experience as a writer and has written how-to guides, hacking toolkits, Kali Linux, and in-depth explainers on Windows, and Linux systems. Her contribution to techorhow has been remarkable and is growing day by day.