$Recycle.Bin or system volume inforamation virus

Hi, I recently purchase the windows 8 Laptop , in that after windows 8 updates installation "$recycle.bin & System Volume Information" folder are created in all partion folders like C,D, i thinking as a virus folders,
because of I am unable to delete this folders in my system, this folders are created in all my hard drives. I want remove this virus. How can I do this one.

Hi
These 2 folders are normal for Windows installation, not virus.
$recycle.bin contains the data for the Recycle Bin and the System Volume Information contains the Restore Points for System Restore on each drive.
These folders are normally Hidden, by default.
Wade Liu
TechNet Community Support

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Add-PSSnapin : The Windows PowerShell snap-in 'Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell' is not installed on this machine.
At line:1 char:13
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At line:3 char:29
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At line:14 char:52
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