“My hard drive was infected with Worm:Win32/Vermis.gen!lnk. I used microsoft security essentials and removed the virus. But all my short cuts gone. How to retrieve the shortcuts? From the disk space available i knew the files are still there. Please somebody help....”
If you detect this virus and want to remove it from your PC, you can follow the removal guides below.
What is Worm:Win32/Vermis.gen!lnk？
It is obvious that Worm:Win32/Vermis.gen!lnk is a harmful a generic detection for malicious .INF and .LNK files dropped by different worms, such as IRCBot, Phorpiex, Dorkbot, Caphaw, etc. It gets installed onto your PC when you visit a compromised webpage or unfold a suspicious share files. You should know that the .LNK is a file name extension that identifies shortcut files, containing scripts used to control hardware operations. This worm virus is also detected as:
