Yea, aint no Christmas without a present right? Well, say hello to the new malicious tool in town: hardware diagnostic tool!
This program is another fake. Honestly, it’s amazing how fast this family of counterfeit system optimizers gets updated with new malwares: just yesterday there was HDD Scan and there you go – there’s a clone today. Hard Drive Diagnostic tells you tons of silly things about your system’s status.
How to remove Hard Drive Diagnostic manually:
Manual removal of Hard Drive Diagnostic is a feasible objective if you have sufficient expertise in dealing with program files, processes, .dll files and registry entries.
The files to be deleted are listed below:
- %Temp%\[random]
- %Temp%\[random].exe
- %Temp%\[random].dll
- %Temp%\dfrg
- %Temp%\dfrgr
- %Documents and Settings%\[User_Name]\Desktop\Hard Drive Diagnostic.lnk
- %Documents and Settings%\[User_Name]\Start Menu\Programs\Hard Drive Diagnostic
- %Documents and Settings%\[User_Name]\Start Menu\Programs\Hard Drive Diagnostic\Hard Drive Diagnostic.lnk
- %Documents and Settings%\[User_Name]\Start Menu\Programs\Win Defragmenter\Uninstall Hard Drive Diagnostic.lnk
The registry entries that need to be removed are as follows:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random]“
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random].exe”
Please be aware that manual removal of Hard Drive Diagnostic is a cumbersome process and does not always ensure complete deletion of the malware, due to the fact that some files might be hidden or may get reanimated automatically afterwards. Moreover, manual interference of this kind may cause damage to the system. That’s why we strongly recommend automatic removal Hard Drive Diagnostic, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.
So there you have it.. its not supposed to be on my site, but im sure lots of yal already had it and needed quick ways outa the trap. cheers!
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