If you just hear about the virus or if you yet to get shortcut virus infection on your external usb flash drive or if have already been affected with this shortcut virus, then you should be alert enough and take necessary actions so that you can protect yourself against further spreading of this annoying virus. Preventions and precautions from getting infected with Windows Shortcut virus: Later, it has infected your external drive as soon as you have connected it to your PC.

You have inserted someone’s flash drive to your computer from where the PC has been infected.

The virus has spread to your external drive from there if autorun is turned on.

You have connected the removable drive (like USB flash drive, pen drive, portable hard drive) into your friend’s PC or in your workplace to exchange some data which have already been an infected one.

Online infection: If you download and install an executable file to your computer which contains the trojan/malware or which contains the malicious script.

Possible reasons of spreading shortcut virus are as follows: Second one affects the PC and it’s drives, files, folders and creates shortcut each of them, later makes those inaccessible. One creates shortcut of every files in the external storage. Types of Shortcut Virus: Baically, there are two types of shortcut virus available in the market. However, sometimes, shortcut virus infects the files, folders and drives of a Windows PC. are the primary target of this shortcut virus. External storage like USB flash drive, pen drive, external hard disk, memory card etc.

This virus can affect and infect external devices mainly.

Before discussing the method of removing shortcut virus permanently from USB flash drive and from PC, you have to know in details about it. However, I successfully managed to remove it manually. Info: My laptop was also affected by shortcut virus a month before. Reading this tutorial a user can be aware about such viruses and can protect himself from getting infected. You need to remove the virus keeping all the data intact. So, it is my essential duty to give you a perfect solution so that you will get rid of such annoying shortcut creator virus on your Windows PC because in all sense formatting is not the solution to remove any virus.

I got so many emails asking questions about “ how to remove shortcut virus from my computer?” or “can you help me to remove virus that creates shortcut of every file, folder and drive?”. Recently, the activities of such shortcut viruses increase at a high rate. If you are a Windows computer user and love to use flash drive/usb pen drive to exchange files (games, movies, software etc.) from friend’s PC, then you might become the victim of shortcut virus any time. Is there any shortcut virus remover in the web world? The question is big today.

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