HDD Repair Removal Process (remove HDDRepair)

Protect Yourself from HDD Repair

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Cybercriminals these days are becoming ever more creative in their efforts to scam computer users out of their money through fake security programs that they sell online. Aside from rogue antivirus and anti-spyware programs, cybercriminals are also creating rogue defragmentation programs in order to scare computer users that their computer has several errors in its hard drive. Be aware that not all defragmentation programs promoted online are legitimate, and you must not trust anything with your credit card information online, unless if it has been verified to come from a reputable source.

The Spread of the Notorious HDD Repair and its Manifestations

HDD Repair is a fake optimization, or defragmentation tool, that tries to scam gullible computer users into buying a useless software product. PCHubs malware researchers have confirmed that HDD Repair is a clone of Hard Drive Diagnostic, Win HDD and HDD Diagnostic which were all previously confirmed to be rogue defragmentation programs. Since it is related to a family of rogue antivirus programs or security applications, HDD Repair seems to be another rogueware that must not be trusted. With its relatives having a history of being a rogueware application, it is just proper to treat HDD Repair with caution and not to trust it with your personal credit card information.

HDD Repair spreads to computers through Trojans or fake online scanners that install the rogueware to the computer system without requiring permission from the computer user. Upon successful installation on the infected computer, HDD Repair would perform a fake system scan with a legitimate-looking graphical user interface. This deceptive GUI makes HDD Repair confusing for the unsuspecting computer user, causing a lot of victims to fall into this scam. The fake system scan yields a fabricated scan result showing that the infected computer has several hard drive errors as well as registry errors that can only be repaired upon purchase of a full version of HDD Repair. This is where the rogueware redirects the computer user to their website’s purchase page to lure the victim to divulge his credit card information to purchase the fake HDD Repair program. You must not be fooled by this rogueware, as various security analysts can confirm that HDD Repair is just a fake program and buying it will just be a waste of money.

How to Stop HDD Repair with its Annoying and Notorious Alerts

PCHubs PC research team has also noted that HDD Repair was designed with capabilities to resist its removal. This is done with its features of being able to block legitimate security programs from running on your PC. It very strongly and highly recommended that HDD Repair be removed from your computer as soon as you see the initial manifestations of infection. Keeping HDD Repair on your computer would increase the potential risk for damage and would make your computer more vulnerable to security breaches and computer attacks. Removing HDD Repair as soon as possible ensures that there is less damage done to your PC.

A trustworthy security application that is duly updated will do the trick of removing HDD Repair. Make sure to do the removal process in Safe Mode, so that HDD Repair does not resist the removal procedures.

Are you getting popups from HDD Repair? Have you identified that you have HDD Repair installed on your computer? Do you wish to remove HDD Repair completely from your computer?

Why should you remove HDD Repair?

If HDD Repair resides on your computer, it can potentially damage your personal files or you may end up losing data stored on your system. Research has shown that HDD Repair may have the ability to make your computer vulnerable to remote attacks which could result, initially, in loss of money, possibly identity theft, and, eventually, a painstaking HDD Repair removal process.

How can you manually remove HDD Repair

Manual removal of HDD Repair may not be for everyone. Each manual HDD Repair removal step must be followed delicately to completely remove all related files and registry entries from your computer. If you are unsure or have doubts about editing your system registry, then we recommend that you use the automatic HDD Repair removal process.

HDD Repair can be removed manually by following the steps below.

1. With all programs closed, click the Start Menu and go to the Control Panel.
2. Locate the Add/Remove Programs icon and double click it.
3. Locate HDD Repair in the list of programs. If you find it, select it and remove it. If you cannot find HDD Repair, you can continue to step 5.
4. Restart your computer.
5. Close all open programs and windows on your desktop.
6. Open your registry editor (regedit) program by going to Start Menu, type in regedit, and click OK.
7. Find all of the following registry entries and delete them. If you do not know how to do this, then you can read how to edit the registry in Windows.
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "[random]"

   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "[random].exe"

8. You may need to return to this removal process for removing HDD Repair. You can do this easily by bookmarking or adding a favorite to this page by clicking here. If you are using the FireFox web browser you can press the keys Ctrl and D simultaneously to bookmark this page.

   Image 1. Bookmark PCHubs removal process

   

9. Delete all of the following files that are associated with HDD Repair from your computer.

   %Documents and Settings%\[User_Name]\Desktop\HDD Plus.lnk

   %Documents and Settings%\[User_Name]\Start Menu\Programs\HDD Plus

   %Documents and Settings%\[User_Name]\Start Menu\Programs\HDD Plus\HDD Plus.lnk

   %Documents and Settings%\[User_Name]\Start Menu\Programs\HDD Plus\Uninstall HDD Plus.lnk

   %Temp%\dfrg

   %Temp%\dfrgr

   %Temp%\[random]

   %Temp%\[random].dll

   %Temp%\[random].exe

   If you need a better understanding on how to search for these files then you can read how to find and search for files and folders here.

   If you have issues deleting any of the previously listed files that are associated with HDD Repair, you can try rebooting your computer into safe mode. Booting into safe mode may allow certain malicious files to be deleted. If you are wondering how to boot into safe mode, you can read our process for starting a computer in safe mode here.

   Image 2. Select "Safe Mode with Networking"

   

10. After locating and deleting the previous files you must remove all directories associated with HDD Repair by going to the C:\ProgramFiles\HDD Repair folder, select it, and delete it. In some cases you may not be able to find this directory. You can still continue to the next step.

11. Restart your computer. You do not need to boot into safe mode at this point. You should have removed HDD Repair completely from your computer. If you find that HDD Repair is still on your computer, you can repeat the steps again or go to the automatic HDD Repair removal process.