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Internet Hit by Wave of Fake PC 'defrag' Tools
Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 12/15/2010 10:21 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]
PC World reports that a spate of scareware apps that trick users into buying useless hard disk repair tools appears to be part of a concerted campaign to push fake "defrag" software
ding to a GFI-Sunbelt Security blog, a new type of bogus disk software has suddenly become very common on the back of this, with a clutch of convincing examples appearing in recent weeks.
Users encountering new examples HDDRepair, HDDRescue and HDDPlus should ignore them. They are bogus applications that claim to defragment a user's hard disk even though such a requirement is barely needed given that Windows does a lot of this work behind the scenes anyway.
Users encountering new examples HDDRepair, HDDRescue and HDDPlus should ignore them. They are bogus applications that claim to defragment a user's hard disk even though such a requirement is barely needed given that Windows does a lot of this work behind the scenes anyway.
Internet Hit by Wave of Fake PC 'defrag' Tools
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