.lnk USB Virus

It seems like every year, this USB Virus mutates and becomes more and more difficult to remove. Here are some steps I found online to remove it.

1. Try to scan your USB drive first with your anti-virus software
2. If no threats are found, go to Start and type cmd on the search bar
3. When it appears, right click on it and choose the option Run as Administrator 
4. Navigate to Flash Drive by typing its assigned drive letter, then colon, and hit Enter (i.e. H:)
5. Type dir /w/a to check what files are present. This virus usually tries to hide all your original files in the USB and will only show two files - an autorun.inf.lnk file and another .lnk file
6. Type del *.lnk in the cmd window and hit Enter on your Keyboard.
7. Now type attrib -s -r -h *.* /s /d /l and hit Ente
8. Your now might see two folders, one named _ (underscore) and another called System Volume. One of the folders should contain all your original files. Just copy your original files to a different storage device and delete everything else you don't recognize. You can also just format your USB drive once you've retrieved the original files.