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How To Get Rid Of Hard Drive Diagnostic Virus? Eliminate And Remove Hard Drive Diagnostic Virus Fake Antivirus Completely How To Remove Hard Drive Diagnostic Virus? Remove Hard Drive Diagnostic Virus Manually

How to Get Rid of Hard Drive Diagnostic Virus? Eliminate and Remove Hard Drive Diagnostic Virus Fake Antivirus Completely. How to remove Hard Drive Diagnostic Virus? Remove Hard Drive Diagnostic Virus manually. Hard Drive Diagnostic Virus is not a legitimate antivirus Program but itself a malware, more precisely a new kind of fake antivirus program from the same household of Win HDD, HDD Defragmenter, HDD Scan

Author: Mike J Bennett
Date: Dec 7, 2010 - 10:09:48 AM

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How to Get Rid of Hard Drive Diagnostic Virus? Eliminate and Remove Hard Drive Diagnostic Virus Fake Antivirus Completely. How to remove Hard Drive Diagnostic Virus? Remove Hard Drive Diagnostic Virus manually.

Hard Drive Diagnostic Virus is not a legitimate antivirus Program but itself a malware, more precisely a new kind of fake antivirus program from the same family of Win HDD, HDD Defragmenter, HDD Scan. The only variation being the center files are altered a few and the name is changed to hide it's detection by real 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 install Hard Drive Diagnostic Virus onto your computer without your permission and knowledge and set up it to run when you restart Windows.

When Hard Drive Diagnostic Virus is commenced, it will simulate a system scan and detect a lot of various infections that will not be set right unless you first purchase the program. Important to know, all of these reported infections are scam and don't actually exist on your computer! So you can safely ignore the scan results.

While Hard Drive Diagnostic Virus has started, it will cease the ability to run any programs as a procedure to scare you into thinking that your computer is affected with spyware.

The following 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.

Fix Disk
Windows Disk Diagnostics will scan the system to identify performance problems.
Start or Cancel
Requested registry access is not allowed. Registry defragmentation required
Read time of hard drive clusters less than 500 ms
32% of HDD space is unreadable
Bad sectors on hard drive or damaged file allocation table
GPU RAM temperature is critically high. Urgent RAM memory optimization is required to prevent system crash
Drive C initializing error
Ram Temperature is 83 C. Optimization is required for normal operation.
Hard drive doesn't respond to system commands
Data Safety Problem. System integrity is at risk.
Registry Error - Critical Error

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

Realize these are all false alerts and make sure you do not take any action on these warning messages. Follow the below instructions to eliminate these fake antivirus alerts.

And now coming back on How, you need a strong program to fix the damages, the rogue has caused. It alters files, folders,permissions and registry keys altogether....to rejuvenate your PC from malicious trojans that may still live and make your PC slow and to stop from getting re-infected.

How to get rid ofHard Drive Diagnostic Virus manually.

In order to get rid ofHard Drive Diagnostic Virus 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

Hard Drive Diagnostic Virus stores its files in Windows temp folder. You need todelete these files.

Affected Registry Entries, Files and Folders.

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

And also

%UserProfile%DesktopHard Drive Diagnostic.lnk
%UserProfile%Start MenuProgramsHard Drive Diagnostic
%UserProfile%Start MenuProgramsHard Drive DiagnosticHard Drive Diagnostic.lnk
%UserProfile%Start MenuProgramsHard Drive DiagnosticUninstall Hard Drive Diagnostic.lnk

%UserProfile% is C:/Documents and Settings for Windows 2000/XP & C:Users for Windows Vista/7

%Temp% is C:/DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS/ProfileName/LOCAL SETTINGS/Temp for Windows 2000/XP & C:/UsersProfile/Name/AppData/Local/Temp for Windows Vista and Windows 7

Registry Entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun "[Random Characters]"
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun "[Random Characters].exe"

Processes:
[Random Characters.exe]

Remove the following files and registry entries. If you do not have adequate expertise in dealing with computer files, folders, processes, DLL files, services & registry entries, please take help from some one who can does this for you because manual deletion is a clumsy process and does not always ensure that the deletion of the spyware antivirus is complete

Otherwise Get Reimage license by going to PC Reimage in order to get rid of Hard Drive Diagnostic Virus.

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

Run Internet Explorer,

Click Tools -> Internet Options

Choose Connections Tab

Click LAN Settings button.

Uncheck "Use a proxy server" box. Click OK.

Click Apply.

Click OK.

And go to http://pcreimage.cz.ccto run a Scan.

Reimage works by comparing each and every OS system files with the correct files from a web repository of 25 million operating system components. (since Reimage works by comparing with correct file, it can easily find the concealing 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 sole reason you can get a PC as good as new once you run Reimage, all other antivirus and antimalware programs just delete the virus....but they don't fix 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 fix or remove those stuffs that should be there. But it's not just that it does. They have an tremendous web repository of application, drivers, system objects, etc. from where they compare your PC's files and if corrupted replace it with the healthy ones.

Go to Reimage For a Complete Scan Now to Get Rid of Hard Drive Diagnostic Virus altogether

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