Win7: Virus cause the folders to be hidden

Yep, a virus attacked my USB drive, it hide the folders, and replace them to a link which execute the naughty virus, using AV program, i manage to clean the virus, now the problem would be removing hidden attribute on the hidden folder..

I manage to enter the hidden folder using the path, but right-clicking and entering the properties doesn't allow me to change the hidden attribute for the folder

Fortunately, i come across this post here is a step by step guide :

1. Open your command prompt, enter your path, as for my case it's H:
2. run the command "attrib /s /d -r -s -h" without the double quotes
3. wait for it..

A little explanation from the original author :

• /s apply the command to all files
• /d apply the command to all folders
• -h will clear the hidden attribute
• -s will clear the system file attribute
• -r will clear the read only attribute

Hope this helps someone ;)