Critical Error Hard Drive Not Found Virus
List Welcome Guide More BleepingComputer.com → Security → Am I infected? What do I do? Javascript Disabled Detected You currently have javascript disabled. Several functions may not work. Please re-enable javascript to access full functionality. Register a free account to hard drive failure virus unlock additional features at BleepingComputer.com Welcome to BleepingComputer, a free community where people like yourself hard drive failure virus windows 7 come together to discuss and learn how to use their computers. Using the site is easy and fun. As a guest, you can malwarebytes browse and view the various discussions in the forums, but can not create a new topic or reply to an existing one unless you are logged in. Other benefits of registering an account are subscribing to topics and forums, creating a blog, and having no ads shown anywhere on the site. Click here to Register a free account now! or read our Welcome Guide to learn how to use this site. Hard drive failure critical error Started by Vick Broo , Mar 23 2011 06:54 AM Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 Next Please log in to reply 36 replies to this topic #1 Vick Broo Vick Broo Members 3 posts OFFLINE Local time:08:46 AM Posted 23 March 2011 - 06:54 AM Hi! I have a problem with my computer. I've red an other topic (but I can't find it anymore) and it seems to mee that I have a virus. I can not acces any files or programs. After starting I get Windows recovery which I've never seen before (could be me but I'm not sure) It detects this mistakes and can not fix them if I upgrade it should be able to fix my problems. - 39% of HDD space is unrreadable - boot sector of hard drive disk is damaged - hard drive doesn't respond to system commands - read time of hard drive clusters less than 500 ms - bad sectors on hard drive or damaged file on allocation table Then I got these warnings too: Down besides the time pops up a window saying: Hard drive critical error. Run diagnostic utility. Check hard disk drive for errors. Windows can't find hard disk space. Hard drive error. In the screen I get: Hard drive failure. The system has detected a problem with one or more installed IDE/SATA hard disks. It is recommended that you restart the system. After restarting same problems. Besides my computer is in Dutch and all these errors are in English. Is there some one that can hel
rogue virus called Windows Diagnostic. Virus writers are becoming experts in SEO (search engine optimization) and are getting infected sites ranking very high in the search engines. Although these sites only rank high for a short time, they can do tremendous damage while they are showing up. In this particular case, the computer I was cleaning up was infected when its owner went to the following sites from a Google search. http://www.discountesteelauder.co.cc/78ke http://www.mainezoocoupons.co.cc/bi4k Neither site is operational now, but they did show up in search http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/386590/hard-drive-failure-critical-error/ results and helped infect the computer with some nasty rogue malware called Windows Diagnostic. This malware is virtually identical to a number of other drive utility type scareware products like Windows Repair, Windows Scan, Windows Safe Mode, Windows Disk, and Windows Restore. It shows a PC Performance & Stability report and scares you into thinking your computer is about to crash...unless http://www.pchell.com/support/windows_diagnostic.shtml you purchase the product. What Does Windows Diagnostic malware look like? The Windows Diagnostic malware presents a "PC Performance & Stability Report" when it pops up on your computer. This report shows the same sorts of alerts that many rogue antivirus type programs show. However, it takes things a step further. Instead of showing viruses, trojans, and other malicious programs that have invaded your computer, it tells you that your hard drive and computer are crashing with a variety of messages such as: "Hard Drive Failure The system has detected a problem with one or more installed IDE / SATA hard disks. It is recommended that you restart the system" "System Error An error occurred while reading system files. Run a system diagnostic utility to check your hard disk drive for errors" "Critical Error Hard drive critical error. Run a system diagnostic utility to check your hard disk drive for errors. Windows can't find hard disk space. Hard drive error" "Fix Disk Windows Diagnostic Diagnostics will scan the system to identify performance problems. Start or Cancel" "Windows Diagnostic Diagnostics Windows dete
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