Data Repair

Data Repair is a direct clone of Master Utilities, PC Repair and Windows Repair. This rogue defragmenter was designed not to detect errors and offer solutions, but instead to act as a vehicle with which criminal developers rip honest consumers off. This rogue defragger improves on its predecessors’ attack, and enters the system surreptitiously without the user’s knowledge or consent.

It will then initiate a fake system scan which will inform the user of various supposedly crippling errors rendering his PC inoperable. Shortly after this the user will experience be spammed by various fake system messages informing him of the same thing. Some of the more popular fake alerts to be on the lookout for include the following:

System Error
An error occurred while reading system files. Run a system diagnostic utility to check your hard disk drive for errors.

Critical Error
Hard drive critical error. Run a system diagnostic utility to check your hard disk drive for errors. Windows can’t find hard disk space. Hard drive error.

If you read the above fake alerts carefully, you will see that you are dealing with an illegitimate application. This is because some of the alerts state that Windows can’t find the hard disk. Should this have been the case the PC would not be able to operate in the first place.

As a further attack on the system, Data Repair will prevent the user from running applications on the infected PC, and block his Internet access. This is done not only to further annoy the user but also to prevent him from running or downloading other applications which may be able to detect and remove Data Repair from the system. Other symptoms reported include poor system performance and increased erratic system behavior.

It is possible to disable these annoying symptoms by entering the following activation key into the rogue:

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Users are advised that by simply entering the above key they will not have successfully eliminated the threat, but only disabled the symptoms. Users are still required to destroy Data Repair in order to restore the system’s security. This can best be done by making use of a powerful security tool which will not only erase Data Repair but also protect against similar attacks in future.