Christian Mairoll 228 Report post Posted December 9, 2010 The Emsisoft malware research team has discoverd a new outbreak of the Hard Drive Diagnostic adware. Emsisoft Anti-Malware detects this malware as Adware.Win32.HardDriveDiagnostic. Hard Drive Diagnostic is a rogue application, this is another variant of Disk Doctor, Win Defragmenter, WinDefrag, WinHDD, CheckDisk, Ultra Defragger, Quick Defragmenter, Smart Defragmenter, HDD Defragmenter, and System Defragmenter. A rogue application tries to trick you by displaying false positive/misleading scan results report, which says that your computer has a problem, or infected with viruses or trojan, but you will not be able to fix it before you purchase. Create new files: %UserProfile%DesktopHard Drive Diagnostic.lnk %UserProfile%Local SettingsTempdfrgr %UserProfile%Local SettingsTemp%random% %UserProfile%Local SettingsTemp%random%.exe %UserProfile%Local SettingsTempdfrg %UserProfile%Start MenuProgramsHard Drive Diagnostic %UserProfile%Start MenuProgramsHard Drive DiagnosticUninstall Hard Drive Diagnostic.lnk %UserProfile%Start MenuProgramsHard Drive DiagnosticHard Drive Diagnostic.lnk Create new registry entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun(String) %random% = %UserProfile%Local SettingsTemp%random%.exeScreenshots: How to remove the infection of Hard Drive Diagnostic (Adware.Win32.HardDriveDiagnostic)? To delete this malware infection, please download and install Emsisoft Anti-Malware. Run a full scan on all drives and move all detected items to the quarantine. Related Posts: HDD Diagnostic Adware Removal Instructions Disk Doctor Adware Removal Instructions Win Defragmenter Adware Removal Instructions WinDefrag Adware Removal Instructions WinHDD Adware Removal Instructions View the full article Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
