Prevention Tips From Shortcut Virus

Now a days most irritating and harmless virus is shortcut. Most of Users who doesn't use any antivirus or uses freeware anti virus software suffers from this virus and if once it enters in your system it is difficult to remove from system. because any freeware antivirus are not able to remove it from our system. They only capable to detect it.

So it is better way to prevent our system from this type of viruses. I've found some prevention tricks from this virus these are as follows.

1. Never open any removable disk by double click. always right click on drive and the select open to open the removable drive.

2. Turn off Auto-Play option from your system.

3. If you found any pen drive affected from this virus use this command or batch file made by me.

              

              attrib -h -s -r -a /s /d z:\*.*

   

Replace 'z' with your deive letter.

Or you can also use this batch file which I've made this file also prevent you from some other viruses.

click here to download Folder shortcut healer by Aksh Patel.

4. If shortcut virus enter in your system and you do not have any antivirus software then for prevention create system restore points. 

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How to Encrypt Data in Windows OS

Encryption seems to be a very powerful and most widely used security features in the digital world. By encrypting data you can make your data secrete that no one can access your data without key, even though they have access of your system or backup of your data. 

We can encrypt our data by using some software. These software have some predefined encryption algorithms by using them it generates an encryption key according to this key it encrypt our data. so whenever we want to access this data on remote system or in our system we require to provide this key.

Windows os give us inbuilt encryption system by using this we can protect our data easily. THe key features and way to encrypt data I've mentioned in this post.

* About windows encryption 

1.  Our data can only accessible in only our user account.

2. If any one steal our data they cannot access without encryption key.

3. We can backup our encryption certificate any time and if we loss the certificate we can change the certificate if we use the same account.

4. It does't useful in case of anyone have our account access because at that time they can decrypt data without knowing key and also can make back up copy of our encryption certificate.

* How to make data encrypted

1. Right-click the folder or file you want to encrypt, and then click Properties.

2. Click the General tab, and then click Advanced.

3. Select the Encrypt contents to secure data check box, click OK, and then click OK again.

4. the encryped files name are shown in green later like this.

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Create New Encryption Certificate And Backup Existing Certificate

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