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Check If Installed Antivirus is Working and Guarding Computer or Not

Do you doubt your antivirus? If yes, then test your Antivirus whether its really guarding your computer against virus and malware, because having an Antivirus software installed doesn't mean you're really protected and free from security threats. You might have spent a huge amount of money on antivirus software's to protect your computer from virus, malware, Trojan, etc. but it's very much important to keep it up to date and enabled to block any suspicious threats because every day thousands of new virus definition's have been created and spread around the internet, so the existing preventive algorithm's of your antivirus may fail to detect and defend the new threats. Read Also: Internet Banking? Know these 10 Safety Tips for Secure Banking By default, only users running Windows 8 and later versions don't require any third-party tools separately to be installed, to stay protected from virus, spyware and other malicious software, because it comes wi...

Remove Shortcut Virus From Flash Drives Without Formatting

Here in this tutorial, I will explain to you how to remove the shortcut link viruses from your flash drives like pen drives/memory cards, etc,  without formatting the whole disk drive or by using any antiviruses that remove or quarantine the file folders along with the virus. If you find your USB disk files and folders were cloned into shortcuts and reappear even after deleting several numbers of times, Yes your device is infected with Virus, but don't get panic and Format the entire pen drive/flash drive to remove such viruses, your files/folders were not Gone or Corrupted it's just hidden into drive. Read Also: Free data recovery tools for flash drives and hard disk To view the hidden files and folders in the disk: Press " Windows + E"   keys on the keyboard to open the "File Explorer" window (or) directly type File Explorer in Windows Search and Tap on "Enter Key" to open "File Explorer".  In "File Explorer" win...