Shortcut Virus Remover

Shortcut Virus Remover is an easy to use application, capable of detecting the presence of the Shortcut threat. The software can easily fix the damage done by the virus, thus restoring all the icons in the selected drive. The application is lightweight and requires only that you select the drive you wish to clean.

The Shortcut virus is a type of malware, common with pen drives. The symptoms that indicate its presence on a removable memory drive are that all the folders are converted into shortcuts. Opening them gains you access to the contents, however, it can easily spread to any system that gets in contact with the respective drive.

Simply connecting the infected drive to the computer can download the malicious data onto your computer. The opposite process can happen as well: the infecting of a clean pen drive by connecting it to a system that hosts the virus.

Shortcut Virus Remover requires that you simply select the drive you wish to scan. It can easily detect any new memory device you connect to the computer and allows you to select it from the drop-down list. While the software is quick to act, the process is not very transparent, as it does not inform the user of the progress.

The software might seem not to work, especially if you select pen drives letters for the scan, but a batch file appearing in the scanned location is an indication that the software performed its function. In other cases, for instance, when scanning a local drive, other that the file system, the software prompts a command line windows that indicated the undergoing process.

Shortcut Virus Remover is simple to use, since all you need to do is select the desired drive for scanning. The software can detect the presence of the Shortcut virus on the selected location and quickly remove it. Moreover, it can restore the folder icons back to their original state and stops the spread of the malware.