USB flash drive "virus that makes your files hidden"?

my files are hidden

>which I didn't make them hidden,
>I tried the "tool" but its already in the "show hidden files", >
>Ive scan it with an anti virus "sophos" I think the name of the anti virus but
didn't detect any viruses
>some computers show all of my files but some computers when i inserted my USB f
lash drive all my files are hidden Unintentionally
I think its a virus or something...
can someone help me??? on what kind of a virus is this
Update : and also my flash drive occured another problem.. it said that my usb i
s ...show more
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Samy answered 6 years ago
It's a virus all right. So you mean, how are you going to remove it?
There are two things you can do.
1. Open the command prompt. (Start Menu-> run-> type 'cmd' in the run box)
- Navigate to the Peddrive. For example, if it is drive F, then in the command p
rompt, type
F:
and hit enter. Now, you are in the pendrive. Now change the attributes of the fi
les. Type,
attrib -s -h -a -r *
Note that the star(*) means all the files. You can select different files by typ
ing the first letter of the file or folder and then press "tab" it will show the
full file name.
Anyway, when the attributes are set, now go to the pendrive, and you can see you
r files in there. Now in that, search for suspicious files.
the "autorun.inf" must be a virus, and if there is any program, that you did not
put in your pendrive, remove it immediately. It must be a virus. After removing
the two, immediately, pull out the pendrive from the computer, and put it back
after sometime.
Your pendrive is now virus free.......... unless you have virus in your computer
. In that case, you have to clean your PC first.
2. Go to your friend's PC, where you can see all the files. Remove the 'hidden'
attribute by right clicking and selecting properties.
Delete any "autorun.inf" file and any program in the pendrive, which you are not
aware of/
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Guria answered 7 months ago
Steps to Follow
1..First Open the my computer and check the drive letter of USB (H,I..what ever)

2..Second go to the start-->run--and type cmd (For opening command prompt)
for example if the drive letter is H
then type the following in command prompt window.
3....
h: and the press enter
then type this command
H:\> attrib -s -h /s /d
then press enter
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Rim jhim answered 5 months ago
My dear, the best solution is it that you just try to download WINRAR software f
rom web than install it than open your flash drive path in winrar means if your
drive is f than open F drive in winrar after that you can see all your files in
it, what you want just try to copy in your system than after that format your fl
ash drive than again copy your files back in your flash drive it will be ok, no
antivirus can help you to scan flash drive or erase this virus
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prabhash answered 4 months ago
If it is Windows 7 or later version try following command by opening cmd from st
art > run
attrib /? to see the help
attrib /s /d -s -h -a *
you can use the following to backup of the files in usb to hard disk
mkdir c:/backup
cd c:/backup
e: (usb drive)
xcopy /s /h * c:/backup
I think the issue is related to Virus or Windows advanced security related. I am
not able to unset the hidden attribute from GU
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Edric answered 6 years ago
Well it could possibly be a virus that is causing this. Try scanning with AVG an
d Spybot. Also go here http://www.malwarebytes.org/ and download malwarebytes' a
nti malware and run a full scan on it and see what you come up with.
If it's not a virus, or even if it was and everything is still hidden, the first
and most obvious step is to make sure you've got your computer set to show hidd
en files and folders in the Folder Options control panel.
Then, go to start > run and type in cmd to get a command line.
Go to your drive. For example if this is your e drive, type in e:
do dir /a:h and see if your folders come up
You'll probably see them then.... The next step is to do:
attrib -s -h -r name of folder/file
For example: attrib -s -h -r hiddenfile.txt
or attrib -s -h -r hiddenfolder
This will remove system, hidden, and read-only attributes from files or folders
you run the command on. I hope this helps, I'm really rusty on command line stuf
f but this worked for me on some particular issues I've had. :)
edit- you may have to do this for subdirectories and files within them to get th
em to display, I'm not exactly sure on this.
after you get a directory in the root of the drive to show, cd to it (example if
you want to go into the "music" folder put cd music) and do a dir command, if y
ou know there's files in there but they don't show up, try dir /a:h again to lis
t what's hidden, and use the commands I showed you earlier to re-attribute them
one by one.
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Yasin Shah answered 5 days ago
Thanks
Your software fully work for me, thanks again
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NAQASH answered 1 month ago
Here is the working solution for your problem. All is what you have to do is tha
t download a tiny software given in below link and follow the following steps:
http://adf.ly/WaFP5 (copy the URL in your browser window)
1. Download the software and keep it on your desktop.
2. Brows the My computer and select your USB stick
3. Click on Yes! un-hide my folder.
4. Done. open your USB and your data will be in a unnamed folder, save it proper
ly.
enjoy
100 percent working
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divyanshu answered 5 months ago
it was a virus that simply hides the present files in our flash drive n creates
a shortcuts
serious... it's the correct solution for what i was looking
but damm i found it a little late... till then i had deleted some files..
but never find i found other important files shown
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Jonn Bonn answered 6 months ago
thnks for the answers
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Eric C answered 6 years ago
In My computer: tools-> folder options-> view->show hidden files or folders
and/ or, right click on the file and select: properties-> uncheck "hidden"