Changing file Attributes

[philaniH]

Hello

I got my stick infected, files ar hiddden, i manged to view them, but i wanna chane them to visible like i used to on windows, any possibility on mac?

 

[bwana]

what do the hidden files look like? if they're .DS_Store, .Trashes and “._*” files they're just macdroppings.

 

[philaniH]

they are hidden by a windows virus

 

[bwana]

Terminal:

chflags nohidden [path to folder/file/etc]

 

[philaniH]

thanks