Data Repair Removal: How to Remove Data Repair Virus

The Data repair virus gives an impression that it has detected problems such as RAM memory and low disk space issues in a computer so non suspecting users will consider paying for the rogue datarepair program. This malware also causes infected computers to show annoying and misleading data repair popup. Clones include the fake data recovery virus. Learn how to get rid of data repair virus from an infected computer.

Data repair virus removal: How to remove data repair virus
The fake data repair virus is categorized as a fake computer program. Rogue softwares are generally removed by using the popular malware removal tool Malwarebytes. To use this tool in removing data repair virus, you may want to follow the guide below.

1. Download mbam-setup.exe and then rename mbam-setup.exe to iexplore.exe
2. Launch iexplorer.exe to install Malwarebytes
3. Once the program is installed, navigate to your Program Files\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware folder.



Find mbam.exe and rename to iexplore.exe
4. Doubleclick iexplore.exe to launch Malwarebytes
5. Click the "Update" tab and click the "Check For updates" button.
6. Once the program has loaded and updates were downloaded, select "Perform Quick Scan", then click Scan.

7. Once the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results.
8. Make sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected.

Symptoms of Infection

The snapshot below shows a deceitful alert caused by the data repair malware. You will notice “repair required” prominently shown.



This malicious program is known to show non existent computer problems to make it easier to deceive people to “order full functional version” of the software it markets. Examples of alerts generated by the fake datarepair are:

Windows detected a hard disk problem
A potential disk failure may coss loss of files, applications and documents stored on the hard disk. Please try not to use this computer until the hard disk is fixed or replaced.

Hard Drive Failure
The system has detected a problem with one or more installed IDE / SATA hard disks. It is recommended that you restart the system.

System Error
An error occurred while reading system files. Run a system diagnostic utility to check your hard disk drive for errors.

Critical Error
Hard drive critical error. Run a system diagnostic utility to check your hard disk drive for errors. Windows can't find hard disk space. Hard drive error.

Critical Error
Hard drive clusters are partly damaged. Segment load failure.

Fix Disk
Data Recovery Diagnostics will scan the system to identify performance problems.
Start or Cancel

Data Recovery Diagnostics
Windows detected a hard disk error.
A problem with the hard drive sectors has been detected. It is recommended to download the following sertified software to fix the detected hard drive problems. Do you want to download recommended software?

or

Critical Hard Disk Drive Error
Data Recovery detected a bad sector on your hard disk drive.
This error may cause the following problems:

- Data corruption and loss
- Hard drive inaccessibility
- System errors and failures

Requested registry access is not allowed. Registry defragmentation required
Hard Drive rotational speed decreased by 20%
Disk drive C:\ is unreadable.
System files are damaged. System is unstable.
The problem may cause errors while loading operating system.
Ram memory speed decreased significantly and may cause system failure.
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 \System32\496A8300. 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.

Activation Reminder
Data Recovery Activation
Advanced module activation required to fix detected errors and performance issues. Please purchase Advanced Module license to activate this software and enable all features.

Low Disk Space
You are running very low disk space on Local Disk (C:).

Windows - No Disk
Exception Processing Message 0x0000013

Critical Error
Hard drive clusters are partly damaged. Segment load failure.

Take note that you do not have to buy the data repair software being promoted in these alerts because this software is a hoax. Follow the guide above on how to delete data repair virus alerts that keep popping out of your PC.