Shortcut Scanner

Shortcut Scanner is here to help you stay safe from sneaky cyber criminals who love finding ways to mess with our computers. One of their tricks involves using Windows shortcuts to send malicious code. This software dives into your storage drive, checking all your shortcuts for any signs of harmful content and activity.

How Does Shortcut Scanner Work?

You should know right off the bat that Shortcut Scanner doesn’t have proactive scanning. Basically, it can’t check shortcuts while you’re making them in real-time, which would have been a nice bonus. But don’t let that fool you; this app operates like an antivirus scanner.

Scanning Made Easy

It can scan any hard drives, whether they’re local or removable, a specific drive, a folder, or even just one shortcut. After the scan wraps up, you'll see a list of all the LNK files in the area you checked out. You can also peek at the hex mode of a file and its addresses. There’s a handy checkbox next to each link for easy selection—just tick off what you want!

Categorizing Shortcuts

What’s really cool is how Shortcut Scanner organizes everything into different categories. First up are broken shortcuts. These ones don’t go anywhere useful—they point to folders or apps that no longer exist. They’re not harmful, but honestly, they’re just taking up space.

Suspicious and Dangerous Shortcuts

If a shortcut has arguments attached to it, it automatically gets tossed into the Suspicious category. But here’s where things get serious: the Dangerous category. If a shortcut meets certain scary criteria—like pointing to command prompts or having malicious shortcuts—it ends up there! Plus, if it’s larger than 4KB? Yep, straight to Dangerous.

What Should You Do?

You can ignore those broken links and suspicious files if you want, but definitely take action on anything in the Dangerous section. It’s wise to delete those bad boys!

A Simple Solution Against Threats

Shortcut Scanner is an easy-to-use tool designed to tackle infections that come from exploiting shortcuts. Not only does it sniff out malicious content but it also helps clean up those pointless broken shortcuts cluttering your hard drives.

If you're ready to download Shortcut Scanner, give your system a quick check today!