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Remove Windows Recovery Malware
What is Windows Recovery?
Windows Recovery is malware and a spyware program which mislead people by scanning your system and display misleading errors that needs to fix. It will display messages to scare people to buy the license of that program but you know it is a fraud. Below are the messages you can see when this program is running:
Critical Error!
Windows was unable to save all the data for the file \System32\496A8300. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware.
System Restore
The system has been restored after a critical error. Data integrity and hard drive integrity verification required.
Critical Error
A critical error has occurred while indexing data stored on hard drive. System restart required.
How I got this kind of Malware?
Well, this is distributed by a trojan program, sometimes it is attached within the cookies of a certain website which offer free downloads, anty-spyware and offer advertisement that will boost the performance of your computer.
How to remove this?
I recommend you to use HijackThis because i experienced it myself when I got a hit with this annoying malware application which offer you cleaning your computer for errors and boosting your computer performance but that is a fraud, a scam which only steals your money if you buy that license through credit card. Don’t buy anything or don’t try to enter your credit card information for they will only steal your money out of it.
Download HijackThis here
After you download it, double click the installer and run it.
1. Click on Next button to proceed with the installation.
2. Click on Accept the Agreement and proceed if you agree with the statement otherwise exit the application.
3. Browse where folder in your computer do you want HijackThis to be installed. Click on Install and wait while the copying of files be done and then click on Finish when it appears.
4. After the installation been done, click on the HijackThis icon on your desktop.
5. When you see the image below, click on Do a system scan and save logfile button to proceed in removing the malwares and spywares.
6. After running a scan, you can notice a detected error in your system which includes registry error. It will look like the image below. Check all boxes and click on Fix Selected and the system will ask you to proceed deleting those files. Just keep clicking on yes until it finish. Click on Restart when asked.
That’s it. Enjoy surfing the net!
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