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]”

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