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How to Get Rid of ScanDisk or Scan Disk Antivirus? Eliminate and Remove ScanDisk or Scan Disk Fake Antivirus Completely How to remove ScanDisk or Scan Disk Antivirus? Remove ScanDisk or Scan Disk Antivirus manually.How to uninstall ScanDisk or Scan Disk
ScanDisk or Scan Disk Antivirus is not a real antispyware program but itself a fake antivirus and a new kind of simulated defragmenter spyware program from the same family of Quick/HDD Defragmenter. This program is |spread-out with the help of Trojans. When the Trojan is commenced, it will automatically download and set up ScanDisk or Scan Disk Antivirus onto your computer/desktop without your knowledge and configure it to run when you start/restart your computer.
While ScanDisk or Scan Disk Antivirus has started, it will block the ability to run any programs to scare you into thinking that your PC is affected with viruses/spywares
The below warnings will be shown
Realize these are all false/fake alerts and make sure you do not take any action on these warning messages. Follow the below instructions to clean up these fake antivirus alerts, warning messages.
Windows detected a hard drive problem.
A hard drive error occurred while starting the application.
Windows No Disk
Exception Processing Message 00000013
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.
How to remove ScanDisk or Scan Disk Antivirus manually
Delete the below listed files and registry entries. If you do not have adequate expertise in dealing with computer files, folders, processes, DLL files, services & registry entries, please get assistance from some one who can do this for you because manual deletion is a tedious process and does not always ensure that the deletion of the spyware antivirus is complete and also it would be more harmful if you accidently remove any of the important and healthy files rather removing the unhealthy files.
Or Get Reimage license key by going to PC Reimage in order to remove ScanDisk or Scan Disk Antivirus in a safe manner.
Affected Registry Entries, Files and Folders.
Files & Folders:
%UserProfile%DesktopScanDisk or Scan Disk.lnk
%UserProfile%Start MenuProgramsScanDisk or Scan DiskScanDisk or Scan Disk.lnk
%UserProfile%Start MenuProgramsScanDisk or Scan DiskUninstall ScanDisk or Scan Disk.lnk
%Temp%[Ramdom Characters].exe
%Temp%[Ramdom Characters]
%Temp%[Ramdom Characters].da
%UserProfile% is
C:Documents and Settings for Windows 2000/XP
C:Users for Windows Vista/7
%Temp% is
C:DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGSProfileNameLOCAL SETTINGSTemp for Windows 2000/XP
C:UsersProfileNameAppDataLocalTemp for Windows Vista and Windows 7
And now coming back on How to remove ScanDisk or Scan Disk Antivirus Completely, you need a solid tool to repair the damages caused by these rouge antivirus. It changes files, folders, permissions and registry keys altogether....to restore your PC from malicious Trojans that may still reside and make your PC slow & sluggish and to stop from getting re-infected.
In order to get rid of ScanDisk or Scan Disk Antivirus completely from you computer, start your PC in safe mode with networking.If you can't run the IE, then you should update/fix the proxy settings of Internet Explorer.
Run Internet Explorer, Click Tools -> Internet Options, Choose Connections Tab, Click LAN Settings button.
Uncheck "Use a proxy server" box. Click OK.
Click Apply.
Click OK.
And go to http://pcreimage.cz.cc/ to run a Scan.
Reimage works by comparing each and every Operating System's system files with the correct files from a network repository of 25 million Windows OS components. (since Reimage works by comparing with correct file, it can easily find the concealing rootkit, infact this is what a rootkit remover dodumps a list of files from your hard disk drive and compares it with the list from the recovery console in order to find a hiding virus) This is the sole reason you can get a PC as good as new once you run Reimage, all other antivirus and antimalware programs just deletes the virus.but they don't correct or fix the damage caused by these fake antiviruswhich results in re-infection and slow performing PC.
Reimage first scans your PC exhaustively all the files, folders, registry keys and values, drivers, software, stacks and then either repair or remove those stuffs that should be there. But it's not just that it does. They have a huge web repository of application, drivers, system objects, etc. from where they compare your PC's files and if corrupted replace it with the healthy ones.
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