What are Shortcut Virus? Types and how do they spread?

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What are Shortcut Virus?

Shortcut virus are so-called self-replicating or duplicating virus that might corrupt your removable media or your folder or your disk. What’s, even more, worse is that they keep replicating on devices connected to your current computer.

How do they spread ?
Your transferring files between your PC and your Android device and possibly your PC contains a shortcut virus. It is possible that your Android Device may also get infected with the shortcut virus. Now let’s proceed on to the ways of removing shortcut viruses from your computer through the following proven tweaks and tricks.

Types of Shortcut Viruses:

1. Drive Shortcut Virus: This type of virus affects all the external and internal storage device such as pen drives, hard disks, etc.
2. Folder Shortcut Virus: This type of virus affects all the folders on your PC
3. File Shortcut Virus: This type of virus affects the file types such as documents, music, videos, images etc. and corrupts them by making many shortcuts of them.