How to Avoid Getting a Computer Virus or Worm

Internet is the most important part of our lives many of the users constantly use it throughout the day. In tads date there is an increase risk of infection such as virus and malware attack that lead to loss of data and theft of confidential data. Every computer that marks its existence on network is vulnerable to these threats.

How to remove Shortcut Viruses from Computer and Drives?

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.

     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.