ShAmmY1989 984 Report post Posted August 6, 2013 Files Hidden by Virus. How to Unhide Them The Problem My girlfriend was panicked when she found out her Final Year Project files were missing from her thumb drive. She thought the files were already gone by a virus attack or were accidentally deleted by her friends. After I did some analysis, I found out the files are still there but a virus had modified the file properties to ‘Hidden’ and hide all files in the thumb drive. Although she tried to “Show Hidden Files” but the virus does not allow her to view them. Luckily, she has a very intelligent and clever boyfriend who guides her on how to overcome this problem. 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. Click HERE to fix your PC errors with ease 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. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
