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What is HDD Tools virus?
What is HDD Tools virus?

HDD Tools is fake disk repair program or computer optimization application which is very much similar to HDD Plus and HDD repair rouge defragmenters. It is another disk optimization tool to trick the innocent and unknown users. With the help of unlawful techniques and tricky practices it display false alerts in your system that make you think that your system is having some serious problems like bad sectors, hard drive errors etc. It pretends as computer optimization application or defragmenter that promises to fix all errors and make your system virus free if you purchase the full version of this fake application. But don't waste your money on this bogus application as it scams not system optimizer. So, it is advised to remove HDD Tools upon detection.

HDD Tools will also show a lot of alerts and notifications warning you about system errors and hardware failure. The alert may look like this:

Critical Error!

Windows was unable to save all the data for the file System32496A8300. 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.

The system has been restored after a critical error. Data integrity and hard drive integrity verification required.

How to remove HDD Tools virus?

Stop HDD Tools processes:

[random].exe

Remove HDD Tools registry values:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{3F2BBC05-40DF-11D2-9455-00104BC936FF}

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTPersonalSS.DocHostUIHandler

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerDownload "RunInvalidSignatures" = '1'

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet Settings "ProxyServer" = "http=127.0.0.1:25553"

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun "Personal Security Sentinel"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionImage File Execution Options "Debugger" = "svchost.exe"

Delete HDD Tools files:

c:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication Data95a

c:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication Data95a713.mof

c:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication Data95a80e9877130a15854a99bf6dd8d368239.ocx

c:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication Data95amozcrt19.dll

c:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication Data95aPersonalSS.exe

%UserProfile%Application DataMicrosoftInternet ExplorerQuick LaunchPersonal Security Sentinel.lnk

%UserProfile%Application DataPersonal Security Sentinel

%UserProfile%Application DataPersonal Security Sentinelcookies.sqlite

%UserProfile%DesktopPersonal Security Sentinel.lnk

%UserProfile%DesktopPersonalSS.exe.txt

%UserProfile%Start MenuPersonal Security Sentinel.lnk

%UserProfile%Start MenuProgramsPersonal Security Sentinel.lnk

Using above mentioned steps you can remove HDD Tools but sometimes it leads to system crash due to accidental deletion of some important system files. So, it is strongly recommended to use effective registry cleaner so that you can repair your corrupt registry and completely delete the entire infected files from the system. It scans your registry and improves the system performance.

You can get the required information about such programs through this article. For more information you can visit: Remove HDD Tools

For Details visit: http://www.registryquick.net

by: luccass01




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