Disable File: Silly Facts
Saturday, December 11th, 2010Win Defrag is counterfeit computer utilization utility which is developed to speed up the system performance. But in reality it is totally scam and don’t have any de-fragmentation or system optimization features. So, never trust this application because it’s only a way to take away your money by using illicit tactics. This malware belongs to Win HDD or HDD control family which attacks your system by means of Trojans and gradually destroys it.
This rogue application automatically gets installed in your system without any permission. When it enters your system starts displaying numerous warning messages stating that something is wrong with your system and you need to scan your system. The message is displayed as follows:
Part of optimizing Windows XP involves doing cleanups on your computer system by getting rid of unwanted spywares and viruses. It also involves removing obsolete data files and system settings that are no longer needed or are causing the system to do unnecessary operations, thus eating up memory resources.
“Fix Disk
1st Step – Remove spywares
The very first thing you should do in optimizing Windows XP is to make sure that your system is free or at least 90% free of malicious codes like spywares, Trojan horses and viruses. 80% of problems with Windows performance resulted from these unwanted programs that has the potential to corrupt your system or steal information. In fact, almost 90% of the home PCs are infected with one or more of these programs.
Windows Disk Diagnostics will scan the system to identify performance problems.
But before you jump in and buy or even download any of these scanners, do note that there are many bogus programs out there that contain spywares themselves. After you have cleaned up your system, put in place Windows firewall that comes with SP2 as well as Anti-virus programs like AVG or Avast thus optimizing Windows XP through protection against future attacks.
2nd Step – Remove cache and temporary files
Start or Cancel”
You can do so easily by using the “Disk Cleanup Tool” that comes with Windows XP. Click OK to proceed.
3rd Step – Uninstall unused/unwanted programs
Optimizing Windows XP also involves uninstalling programs you are no longer using. Remove any programs that you no longer need.
Immediately after pressing start button it start scanning your system and display fake alerts as mentioned below:
- Registry de-fragmentation required
- Damaged file allocation table
- Blue screen error of death
- Bad sectors
- 32% of HDD space is unreadable
- Drive initialization error
- Critical error: Hard drive not found
- Critical error: RAM memory failure
- Critical error: damaged hard drive clusters detected
Don’t get panic by these error messages because all these errors are false and the real problem is this fake de-fragmentation program.
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