Computer users today face a greater
risk of malware infection than previous days. Cybercriminals are developing
number of threats and are gaining access to more sophisticated tools to launch
attacks against unsuspecting users. Among
the number of viruses there are viruses that are capable of changing/turning
folders of extremely large MB/GBs into small KBs and often named as “regsvr
virus”. Viruses tend to strike the computer and automatically change the
folders and sometimes generate the shortcuts of the folder which does not open
and neither run.
To get rid of shortcut Viruses from
computer and removal drives
The first thing to get yourself free
from any type of virus is by updating your Anti-virus after this you can
proceed with these methods to solve such kinds of problems:
1. Apart from updating the system’s anti-virus program there are softwares there are many manual methods that helps you to get rid of these viruses.
1. Apart from updating the system’s anti-virus program there are softwares there are many manual methods that helps you to get rid of these viruses.
2. For this you have to
a.
Insert the drive that is infected by
the virus into the system for seeing the drive extension from “My
Computer”
b.
Then click on the Start
button>>Then Run/Winke+R and type cmd in the textbox that is provided
then hit the enter key.
c.
After this copy and paste the code
below into the command prompt and then hit enter key. Attrib –h –r –s/s /d
E:\*.* (E: is yours drive extension)
d.
After this check and confirm that
virus has been completely cleared off if not you then have to try the
alternative method.
3. If the above attempt has failed then-
a.
Go to the control panel to untick
the “Hide protected operating system files” or simply use then search box.
b.
Then go to “C:\Windows\System32” and then
manually delete the regsvr
c.
If this regsvr is not found in
System 32 then try it to locate it in the “Processes” tab in the Task Manager.
These methods can help you to remove Short Cut Viruses from the computer and drives.
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