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My Kingston USB caught a virus that made shortcuts of my files, leaving the originals look dimmed, or sort of transparent. I accidentally deleted the original files.I have used an app called and recovered less than half of my files. Then i came to a point that i formatted my Kingston flash drive. Unfortunately I caught that virus again. What should I do?

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Try Shortcut Virus Remover.
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First thing update your anti virus program and then for your data from Kingston USB drive, go for Kernel for FAT and NTFS, restore data software which efficiently and instantly recover all type of data from usb drives as well as from the partitions of hard drive. If you wanna try then check the demo version of the software in which you can preview the files like pics, music files etc and then recover all of them by selecting.

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