Win Defrag Virus

Be cautious of the growing number of Win Defrag Virus programs. These defragment virus programs may appear as legitimate softwares that tell you defragmentation is required and needed in your PC but they are actually scams that were made to victimize naive computer users. An example of this win defrag malware include the Win HDD fake defrag program.

Symptoms of the fake win defrag scam infection
Be wary of constant popups that urge you to do a degfragmentation in your PC followed by adverts urging you to purchase a degramentation software. You may actually be seeing popups caused by the win defragmenter virus. A related malware is the scanner defragment virus. You may want to read this article on scanner defragmentation virus for more information on this malware.

This is an example of the fake windows defrag virus alert:

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

Always check the legitimacy of softwares or programs you see being promoted by popups in your PC.

To remove the win defrag virus,

* Reboot your computer in Safe mode with networking. Do this by restarting your PC and pressing the F8 key after hearing your computer beep on startup. Once the Windows Advanced Options menu appears, select Safe mode with networking and then press ENTER.

* Download, save and run the ATF Cleaner by Atribune. Under Main choose, Select All & click the Empty Selected button.

* Download Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware.
* Double-click mbam-setup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
* At the end, be sure a check-mark is placed next to the following:

Update Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware
Launch Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware

* Click Finish.
* If an update is found, Malbytes anti malware will download and install the latest version.
* Once the program has loaded, select Perform quick scan, then click Scan.
* When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results.
* Be sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected. Reboot your computer if prompted.
* When completed, a log will open in Notepad. The defragmentation virus should now be gone.

12/27/2010