This occurrence you see whenever you insert your removable drives like flash drives,memory cards and so on into a PC infested with this type of virus is very disgusting and frustrating and there are 4 ways by which you can correct this of which 2 are temporary solutions while the remaining 2 are permanent solution but i will be dropping 2 of these here and they are spelt out below and just ask any question on this and it will replied asap.
1.When you open your removable media and see your file folder turned to folder named followed by shortcut and you'll see it size being 1kb and all you just need to do is to right click and select rename and while the folder is highlighted,(do not select anything) other than ctrl c and carefully move your cursor to the upper pane and you'll see ?:// where ? represent a,b,c,d,e etc depending on the letter attached to your removable drive.press ctrl v while the pane has been highlighted and just hit enter key and you will see your real embedded folders and files popping up and just try and make a copy to your desktop and do likewise to other folders and you've retrieved your file and just make sure you scan the extracted folders and files with an updated antivirus.
2.assuming you have the back-files of your removable drive,the right option you go for is to format your drive and be carefull not to open your drive when the autoplay pops up and rather click ......

Read the remainning steps here at http://www.presegsunderstanding.com/2011/01/virus-that-turns-removable-drives.html

good write up. this is helpful for all

folafola: good write up. this is helpful for all

Thanks and I've you applied it to such occurrences?