How to get rid of shortcut virus

 

shortcut virus

It is known by its common name (Shortcut Virus): It is a type of electronic virus that repeats itself more than once, especially in clean and uninfected places on the device.  Its operation depends on the direct link of one of the applications it loads, and the virus starts to copy itself using the name of the application, so as not to attract attention, and the user can detect the virus when it detects an application. .  Your computer applications frequently appear on internal and external drives that are connected to the computer, so this virus spreads widely on hard drives, and drives that can be re-recorded i.e.  multi-purpose and intended for transfer of data, such as: an external memory card and a flash memory (USB flash), and this memory is so called because it connects to a computer through the input to the data bus (USB), and is the first source memory The spread of the shortcut virus to facilitate copying, especially if you are connected to an infected

How to get rid of it

A very high percentage of direct access virus types that infect computers can be easily removed if the user follows the following precautions:

Activate the firewall

Some computer users turn off the firewall to download some untrusted programs, but they neglect to turn it back on, which contributes to the easy entry of any kind of virus, and when the firewall is turned on, it will easily deal with the virus from shortcut, it helps to get rid of it and prevent it from damaging your

Use an antivirus program

One of the useful ways that helps to get rid of shortcut virus is to use an antivirus program that scans for the places where the virus spreads and its presence and removes it permanently.  You can manually scan for and get rid of the shortcut virus using an antivirus program with the following steps:

• Determine the disk infected by the virus.
•      Click on the affected disk once with the right mouse button.
•      Choose the scan option associated with the name of the antivirus program.
• Once the scan is fully completed, a result will appear confirming that the virus has been completely removed.

reformat disks

There are some types of shortcut viruses that are discovered late by the user as a result of ignoring the above two steps, using multiple flash drives that contain the virus, or downloading an application from an unreliable source, which leads to the spread of the virus.  Spread on the computer, causing damage to the data and applications that have infected it, and the only solution that is followed in this case is: Reformat the infected disks, or what is also known as: (Format), and this step helps to erase all data that contains viruses, restore the efficiency of the device to work, the ability to use infected disks.