Showing posts with label WinDisk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WinDisk. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Remove WinDisk (Win Disk) fraudware

Some alerts of the trojan are shown as though on behalf  of Windows. For example the following alert may be shown as a suggestion to upload and install the adware.
  “Windows detected a hard disk error.
(…) Do you want to download recommended software?”
In fact, a trojan is in charge of generating this alert. The trojan is to be considered as a part of adware. Its task is to make the adware installation sound legitimate. However, if you ignore its alerts-requests, the installation will be made without your consent thanks to the trojan efforts.
Get rid of WinDisk trojan and the rest of the adware. Removal of WinDisk is a fake optimization software deletion. Relevant tool to deal with the issue is available here.

WinDisk screenshot:


WinDisk removal tool:


WinDisk manual removal:
Delete WinDisk files:
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\WinDisk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\WinDisk\Uninstall WinDisk.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\WinDisk\WinDisk.lnk
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\[random].exe
Delete WinDisk registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random].exe”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random]”