Hard Drive Failure Critical Error Virus
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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 http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/386590/hard-drive-failure-critical-error/ in search 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 http://www.pchell.com/support/windows_diagnostic.shtml is about to crash...unless 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.
is one of the latest examples of fake HDD tools (bogus system optimization utilities). This program, in spite of its name, takes an active part in creating the http://trojan-killer.net/critical-error-hard-drive-controller-failure-scam/ real mess out of your file system and hiding the majority of your important data. Plus, it begins to display many bogus system error alerts and popups that assert that your http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/280179-32-windows-hard-drive-failing system is full of bugs that supposedly caused all the above-mentioned data absence troubles. One of the examples of fake critical error popups as displayed by File Restore virus says this: “Critical hard drive Error. Hard drive controller failure”. Here is how it looks like when it appears in the right-bottom section of your screen: Be very careful not to trust any misleading and scary information, like the one you see above. There are, in fact, many other similar messages that are all but fake and tell of the same thing – your computer is supposedly in danger hard drive failure and in order to fix its numerous invented critical system errors you must allegedly purchase the full licensed version of fake HDD utility (whatever it is). As we’ve mentioned already, File Restore is the latest scam of many fake HDDs. There have been many other representatives of them in the past, by the way. The odds are that there will be many similar virus programs in the future that will display the same scary content. For this purpose you should be very careful when dealing with them. Ignore all deceitful statements, warnings, alerts and popups as displayed by File Restore rogue (or any other similar malware program). In order to remove this hoax you may follow the guide below which, by the way, will also explain to you how to restore your missing data for free after virus attack. In order to remove File Restore malware from your PC it is strongly recommended that you first run GridinSoft Trojan Killer. Use “Win + E” hotkey combination to open “My Computer” window. From this stage (in the address field) you may insert the address of GridinSoft Trojan Killer’s site http://trojan-kil