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A new strain of malware is spreading in the wild via USB storage devices, exploiting a vulnerability in the way Microsoft Windows handles shortcut files, security reporter Brian Krebs writes.

Users can group their shortcuts by hierarchy in a tree view or by program association. It keeps more frequently used items together. Users can also create shortcuts to quickly launch several items at ...

The Shortcuts Corner is a regular section of our MacStories Weekly newsletter, exclusive to Club MacStories members, where I share advanced shortcuts and respond to readers’ requests for automation.

Last August, Google announced that it’s testing a new organization concept in Drive to cut down on the need for creating file copies. Drive shortcuts are now generally available for both personal ...

Since I have done most of my coding for classes (and almost exclusively in Java), I have always just run my programs through the compiler and never had to worry about actually setting it up to run on ...

The Emotet botnet is now using Windows shortcut files (.LNK) containing PowerShell commands to infect victims computers, moving away from Microsoft Office macros that are now disabled by default. The ...

Sometimes I think it was easier the old way. Today, we will add a dedicated Quick Look entry to the Files app share menu. Never again will you tap to preview a file and have it launch an app instead.