Thursday, 31 July 2014

HOW TO SOLVE SHORTCUT VIRUS ATTACK

















    I decided to write on this topic because i know that this is the most likely virus your device can get, i know how many of this cases i have fixed and the huge smile it brought on the customer faces knowing that their document are not all lost. But only if they knew how simple it was to get back their document they would not have went through any sort of panic at the first place. Let get started, this is what the virus will turn your document to all short cut. Image below.

















    It’s pretty simple on how to get your document back, simply move your mouse to the particular document you want to open and press F2 on your keyboard which serve as “rename”,  or right click on the document or folder and click on rename both explained process are the same. Image below


































    Next you copy the folder doc name by simple command Ctrl + C, or right click and click on copy.Then you go to the address bar and paste it there and press enter. If it is a folder, it will open the hidden documents but if it a document like Microsoft word document it will open correctly all you need to do is save again to another destination by using the "save as" option, or copy out your stuff and paste it in another folder created if it’s  a folder.








PRESS ENTER







Note: It is advisable to zip the new folder your document were copied to by right clicking and click on "send to" then select Compressed zipped folder this is to avoid further contamination of your document. After all this process has been carried out it is important to format your system or the affected storage devices. You can add a comment if you have any tech related issue you want us to write about.  Hope this helped. 

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