How to Remove Shortcut Virus: 9 Powerful & Easy Tweaks!

Every one of us has experienced the Shortcut Virus atleast once in our lifetime. Actually, it has become so common that people often overlook and underestimate it. In the beginning, it looks like nothing problematic has happened to be worried about. Afterall, it's just a shortcut file.

Preventive Measure to Stop Shortcut Virus from Spreading Further in the First Place

I already told you about taking quick preventive measure as soon as you spot it, right?So, what exactly do you need to do?You shall first protect the infected drive from spreading furthermore.To do that, follow these steps:

Stop autoplay of removable drives. This guide from Redmond Pie will help you to quickly disable autoplay of external drives.
And when you want to open and get the contents of your USB Drive, don't double click and open it, that will execute the virus. Instead, Right Click on the drive, click Explore. This way, the shortcut virus won't execute.

So, lets get into the 9 Powerful (Yet Easy) Tricks to Remove Shortcut Virus and rescue your data!

Methods

Feel free to skip to any of the methods below. All of the methods does the same work - i.e. removing shortcut virus. So, you don't have to follow each of them. Follow the one you like, or which looks easy to you. (My first choice will always be UsbFix)

1.USB Fix

2.Folder Fix & Trojorm

3.WinRAR

4.VB Script

5.CMD

6.BAT File

7.Registry Tweak

8.Config Tweak

9.Shortcut Virus Remover

Click here to know the process explained in detail

Credits : http://techpctricks.com/remove-shortcut-virus/