How To Get Rid Of HDD Scan Defragmenter Virus? How To Remove HDD Scan Virus? Uninstall Or Eliminate HDD Scan Completely - By: ArticleSubmit Auto

HDD Scan Antivirus is not a original disk optimization Program but itself a spyware, more precisely a new kind of fake optimization programme from the same household of Win HDD, HDD Defragmenter. The only difference being the core files are modified a few and the name is changed to hide it's detection by original Antivirus programs installed on your personal computer.

This program is spread-out with the help of trojans. When the trojan is started, it will automatically download and set up HDD Scan Antivirus onto your PC without your consent and knowledge and configure it to run when you restart operating system.

When HDD Scan Antivirus is commenced, it will imitate a system scan and find a lot of various infections that will not be fixed unless you first buy the program. Important to know, all of these reported infections are fraud andinexistent on your computer! So you can safely ignore the scan results. When you check C:/Windows/System32/, you could see that the virus has made up content..i.e it will show an utterly different folder contents to make you believe that the hard disk is infected.

While HDD Scan Antivirus has started, it will cease the ability to run any programs as a technique to frighten you into thinking that your computer is affected with spyware.

The below warnings will be shown

Windows detected a hard drive problem.
A hard drive error occurred while starting the application.
OR
Windows cannot find notepad. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the Start button, and then click Search.

Windows detected a hard drive problem.
A hard drive error occurred while starting the application

System Restore
The system has been restored after a critical error. Data integrity and hard drive integrity verification required.

Windows - No Disk
Exception Processing Message 0-0000013

Critical Error
A critical error has occurred while indexing data stored on hard drive. System restart required.

Critical Error!
Damaged hard drive clusters detected. Private data is at risk.

Critical Error
Hard Drive not found. Missing hard drive.

Critical Error
RAM memory usage is critically high. RAM memory failure.

Critical Error
Windows can't find hard disk space. Hard drive error

Critical Error!
Windows was unable to save all the data for the file System32496A8300. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware.

Critical Error
A critical error has occurred while indexing data stored on hard drive. System restart required.

System Restore
The system has been restored after a critical error. Data integrity and hard drive integrity verification required.

And now coming back on How> you need a strong program to repair the damages, the rogue has caused. It changes files, folders,permissions and registry keys completely....to revive your PC from malicious trojans that may still dwell and make your PC sluggish and to stop from getting re-infected.

In order to get rid of HDD Scan Antivirus altogether, start your PC in safe mode with networking, by pressing F8 key. Clean your Windows temp folder.

Windows Temp folder.

By default, this is C:/Windows/Temp for Windows 95/98/ME, C:/DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS/ProfileName/LOCAL SETTINGS/Temp for Windows 2000/XP, and C:/Users/ProfileName/AppData/Local/Temp for Windows Vista and Windows 7

HDD Scan Defragmenter stores its files in Windows temp folder. You need to delete these files.

%Temp%[Random Characters]
%Temp%[Random Characters].exe
%Temp%dfrg
%Temp%dfrgr
%Temp%[Random Characters].dll
%Temp%[Random Characters].exe
%Temp%tmp2.tmp

If you can`t run the IE, then you should repair the proxy settings of Internet Explorer.

Run Internet Explorer,

Click Tools -> Internet Options
Select Connections Tab
Click LAN Settings button.
Uncheck "Use a proxy server" box. Click OK.
Click Apply.
Click OK.

And go to http://reimagepcrepair.com/ to run a Scan.

Reimage works by comparing each and every Operating System system files with the correct files from a system repository of 25 million Windows components. (since Reimage works by comparing with correct file, it can easily find the hiding rootkit, infact this is what a rootkit remover do......dumps a list of files from your hard disk drive and compares it with the list from the recovery console in order to find a hiding virus) This is the exclusive reason you can get a PC as good as new once you run Reimage, all other antivirus and antimalware programs only delete the virus....but they don't correct the damage...which results in re-infection and slow performing PC.

Reimage first scans your computer exhaustively; all the files, folders, registry keys and values, drivers, softwares, stacks and then either repair or remove those stuffs that should be there. But it's not just that it does. They have an huge web repository of application, drivers, system objects, etc. from where they compare your PC's files and if corrupt replace it with the healthy ones.

About the Author

Tom Parks works for Microsoft. He is currently researching on PC optimization and system security. He is also an avid gamer and owns xbox, PS3, Nintendo Wii, Dsi and PSP. Visit my blog http://reimagerepairreview.com

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