Critical Hard Drive Disk Error Virus
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unlock additional features at BleepingComputer.com Welcome to BleepingComputer, a free community where people like yourself come together to discuss hard drive disk failure dell and learn how to use their computers. Using the site is easy and fun. As a guest, you can 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:08:43 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 sa
Replies A friend called that he opened a Microsoft Word file from an unknown sender, and clicked the "Enable Macro" security option, and then his computer stopped working with the following error message window prompted. Windows has encountered a corrupted folder on your hard drive. Multiple corrupted files have been found in the folder "My Documents". To prevent serious loss of data, please allow Windows to restore these files. And there are two "Restore files" and “Restore files and check disk for errors” link at the bottom. My friend did not believe these messages were legitimate ones from Microsoft and suspected that his computer was infected by http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/386590/hard-drive-failure-critical-error/ some kind of virus / malware. So he didn't go ahead to click any of these two links and gave me a call. I am glad he did since who knows what would happen if he clicked them. I instructed him on the phone to use "Alt+F4" to close these suspicious programs, but it does not work for this particular window. And he rebooted his computer a couple time, but as soon http://lichao.net/eblog/resolved-the-critical-disk-error-malware-201401878.html as his network has been connected, this error message prompted again. I asked him to do a safe mode reboot, but unfortunately he could not boot into the safe mode even he pressed the "F8″ key before the Windows loaded. So I decided to play a visit to see what was going on. Then I found out that his OS is Windows 8.1, and I had to boot into the Safe Mode according to this TechNet article " Windows Startup Settings (including safe mode) " by holding "Shift" key while I clicked the Restart option in Windows 8. In the Safe Mode, I had a chance to snip around and finally found out the cause. Here are my steps: Press Win+R, then type "msconfig" to find out what kind of services/program run at the startup. And I found out there was a weird program called "Diablo III Setup", and disabled it and took it noted. Press Win+R, and type "regedit" to check any startup items from there. Usually you should check HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run; HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce; HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run; HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce; For 64-bits OS, you might need to check HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run; HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce;
The below was what I found. From the step 2, we can see there was a Executable file in a random strings folder under "C:\ProgramData" directory. And here is the prois a scam and fake notification accompanying the bogus antispyware programs, such as Windows Fix Disk, System Restore and some others, of which we have previously http://trojan-killer.net/how-to-get-rid-of-critical-hard-disk-drive-error-phony-popup-message/ warned you. Remember that Critical Hard Disk Drive Error can be confusing due to the fact that, similar to the applications it comes with, it seems like a decent message originated by Windows http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/windows-hard-disk-error-message/9b7b47e6-bdbd-4cfb-aaa6-87106ac6b3de OS. It literally says this: Critical Hard Disk Drive Error The only aim of this scam pop-up is to make you believe into the fake system scans run by Windows Repair (or whatever malware hard drive your PC is infected with) so that you would finally make up your mind to buy its so-called full version, which is as useless as the trial one. You might be wondering how to remove Critical Hard Disk Drive Error and all annoying pop-ups originated by it. Here’s how to get rid of Critical Hard Disk Drive Error. There are two ways of doing this – either automatically hard drive disk or manually. The choice is all yours. Critical Hard Disk Drive Error automatic remover: 1. Download the latest version of GridinSoft Trojan Killer to clear (not infected) computer and install it. Version: 2.0.9.4 2. Update the virus database. 3. Copy the entire folder “GridinSoft Trojan Killer” to your jump drive (memory stick). Normally it is located at the following path: (C:\Program Files\GridinSoft Trojan Killer). “C” stands for the system disk of your computer. The name of the system disk, however, can be marked with another letter. 4. Open your jump drive (memory stick). Find the folder “GridinSoft Trojan Killer” there. Open it , find the file under the name “trojankiller.exe” and rename it to “iexplore.exe”. 5. Move memory stick to infected PC, open “GridinSoft Trojan Killer” folder and run iexplore.exe. Optional: copy the folder “GridinSoft Trojan Killer” from your jump drive to some other folder created on your PC and run “iexplore.exe”. Critical Hard Disk Drive Error manual removal guide: Delete virus files: %TempDir%\[random] %TempDir%\[random].exe %TempDir%\dfrg %TempDir%\dfrgr %Desktop%\Windows Fix Disk.lnk %Programs%\Windows Fix Disk %Programs%\Windows Fix Disk\Windows Fix Disk.lnk Delete virus registry entries: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random]” HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random].exe” Related Posts:Fake Microsoft Security Essential Alerts spread malware todayTop 14 lies told by System Rec
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