Virus Removal Videos: Explorer.exe – Corrupt Disk. Fake HDD alert

The fake system error alert that says “explorer.exe – Corrupt Disk” is a scary popup associated with a new malware called System Repair. This is a fake hard drive defragmentation and system optimization utility that is being spread through various malicious and infected links and sites all over the world. The infiltration of this scam takes place due to various leaks in system security protection and other available vulnerabilities of your computer. Regretfully, many systems have been already attacked by this hoax.

When System Repair rogue comes into your system it gives one of the following scary popups that reports such an fake hard drive error:

explorer.exe – Corrupt Disk Exception Processing Message 0x0000397 Parameters 0x7C80001A 0x000003FB 0x7C8002CD 0x7C8006E9

In fact, the hard drive of your workstation functions quite well. The purpose of System Repair program and many of its other faulty alerts, warnings and notifications is to scare you into believing your system functions extremely bad. It reports all sorts of system, memory and hard drive bugs and problems that are simply invented by it. The reason why System Repair rogue does all such things is because it wants to convince you to buy its licensed version (activation code or registration key). Of course, doing so is a serious mistake. What you need to do is to ignore all its fake alerts and run scan with legitimate security application to get rid of this malware from your system.

Malware removal steps:

Apply "Win + E" hotkey combination to open Windows Explorer.
In the address field type http://trojan-killer.net/download.php
Download, install, update and run GridinSoft Trojan Killer.
Scan your computer with it and remove all threats by clicking "Remove selected" button.
Download and run GridinSoft Unhider via http://trojan-killer.net/download/unhider.exe
Download and run GridinSoft Restore via http://trojan-killer.net/download/restore.exe
Reboot your computer.