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Thursday 16 May 2013

How To Get Rid of Shortcut Viruses On A Computer and Removable Drives

How To Remove Shortcut Virus From Computer And Drives.

Have you ever encountered 'Shortcut viruses' on your flash drive/External Hard disk before?
If yes,then you should know how frustrating they can be.Well,as it is,just having an Anti-virus on a Computer system isn't protective enough, but occasionally updating it as new viruses are being made and spread each day.
Amongst these numerous viruses,there's this virus which is capable of changing/turning folders of extremely large MBs/GBs into small KBs and its often named “regsvr virus”(NOTE: Do not confuse it with the System file regsvr32 as they are two entirely different files.)
Like I mentioned above,when this virus strikes your Computer it automatically changes folders & sometimes files into a shortcut which can neither be opened nor run.
So,in this tutorial,I'll be giving some tips on 'how to get rid of these viruses on a system and retrieve your files back.
As there are `a thousand and one` fixes for this issue,I'll try as much as possible to give the easiest of them here.
So tighten your seat-belt and let's begin.

Tuesday 14 May 2013

Here is a list of commands that you can run off from the Run Command Prompt:


Here is a list of commands that you can run off from the Run Command Prompt:

Program Run Command

Accessibility Controls = access.cpl
Accessibility Wizard = accwiz
Add Hardware Wizard = hdwwiz.cpl
Add/Remove Programs = appwiz.cpl
Administrative Tools = control admintools
Adobe Acrobat ( if installed ) = acrobat
Adobe Distiller ( if installed ) = acrodist
Adobe ImageReady ( if installed ) = imageready
Adobe Photoshop ( if installed ) = photoshop
Automatic Updates = wuaucpl.cpl
Basic Media Player = mplay32
Bluetooth Transfer Wizard = fsquirt