Remove xih9.cmd virus

CMD helps to achieve your goal of removing viruses by showing the hidden viruses on a partition or drive. Afterward, you can delete the suspicious files. Since viruses always conceal themselves, you need to make them appear and then delete the virus files. Then how can you show the potentially hidden virus files using CMD? All you need is the attrib command. The attrib command is a Command Prompt command used to display, set, or remove the attributes of the files or folders in the selected location.

By canceling the "hidden" attribute of the virus, you can see it appearing in the folder. And then you will know where to find and remove it. Step 1. Type cmd in the search bar, right-click "Command Prompt" and choose "Run as an administrator". Step 2.

Type F: and press "Enter". Replace "F" with the drive letter of the infected partition or device. Step 4. Type dir and hit "Enter". Now you will see all the files under the assigned drive. The dir command displays a list of a directory's files and subdirectories.

Step 5. For your information, a virus name may contain words like "autorun" and with ". Thus, if you find such suspicious files, type del autorun. R — represents the "Read-only" attribute of a file or folder. Read-only means the file cannot be written on or executed. H — the "Hidden" attribute. This article has been viewed 50, times. Learn more It is common these days to lose your data due to virus affecting you flash drives, memory cards etc. The virus can be removed and the data can be recovered easily by using the command prompt.

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Cookie Settings. If the Windows Advanced Options menu does not appear, try restarting again and pressing F8 several times afterward. Step 3 Delete this registry key [ Learn More ]. Step 4 Delete this registry value [ Learn More ]. Step 5 Restore these modified registry values [ Learn More ].

Step 6 Search and delete these components [ Learn More ]. Repeat the said steps for all files listed. Step 8 Restore this file from backup only Microsoft-related files will be restored.

Now you can identify all the viruses in your PC and USB and delete them without any help of anti-virus software. You can delete the autorun. Sign in. Forgot your password?

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