How to get rid of shortcut virus

Shortcuts virus

It is known by its common name (Shortcut Virus): it is a type of electronic virus that replicates itself more than once, especially in clean, uninfected places on the device, and depends on its work to be directly linked to an application that it carries, and the virus begins to copy itself using the name of the application, until It does not draw attention to it, and the user can discover the virus when he finds that one of the applications on his computer appears repeatedly on the internal and external disks that have been connected to the computer, so this virus spreads widely in hard disks, and disks that can be recorded on again, i.e. multi-use , which is intended for transferring data, such as: the external memory card, and the portable storage memory (Flash USB), and this memory was called by this name because it is connected to the computer through the data bus (USB) entrance, and it is the first source for the spread of the shortcut virus because it is easy to copy on it, especially if I contacted an infected computer.

How to get rid of it

A very large percentage of the types of shortcut viruses that specifically infect computers can be easily eliminated, if the user follows the following preventive measures:

Activate the firewall

Some computer users deactivate the firewall, in order to download some programs that are of unreliable source, but it is neglected to reactivate it again, which contributes to the ease of entry of any type of virus, and when the firewall is activated, it will easily address the shortcut virus, and help to Get rid of it, and prevent it from harming your device.

Use an antivirus program

One of the useful ways that helps to get rid of the shortcut virus is to use an anti-virus program, which searches for the places of spread and the presence of the virus, and eliminates it permanently, and the shortcut virus can be searched manually, and get rid of it using an anti-virus program through the following steps:

• Determine which disk is infected with the virus.
• Clicking on the infected disk once with the right mouse button.
• Choose the Scan option, which is associated with the name of an antivirus program.
• After completing the scan completely, a result will appear confirming that the virus has been completely eliminated.

Reformat the disks

There are some types of shortcut viruses, which the user discovers late, as a result of ignoring the previous two steps, using many storage disks that contain the virus, or downloading an application from an unreliable source, which leads to the spread of the virus widely on the computer, causing damage to the data And the applications that it infected, and the only solution that follows in this case remains: reformatting the infected disks, or what is also known as: (Format), and this step helps to erase all data that contains the virus, and restore the efficiency of the device to work, and the ability to use infected discs again.