Learn an easy fix for the notorious shortcut virus that causes victim’s files on a removable drive or random computer volume to be replaced with shortcuts. The contemporary malware environment is predominantly composed of threats whose objectives fit strictly into a commercialization context. In other words, today’s malicious programs tend to be written in order to further provide profit to their authors in one form or another. Here are just a few illustrations: the different variants of ransomware encrypt one’s files and employ smart extortion techniques to exchange the data for Bitcoins; rogue security tools report imaginary viruses on a PC and insist on the victim purchasing the worthless license so that the purportedly detected items can be eradicated; adware extensions forcibly change users’ web browsing defaults in order to serve ads and get paid for this by the interested parties. It’s all about money. In this highly mercantile business framework, pests like the long-live