How to remove HDD Doctor

Friday, December 24th, 2010 at 12:06 am
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HDD Doctor description

HDD Doctor is a rogue program and it should not be used as a real tool. The goal of HDDDoctor is to gain a purchase.

HDD Doctor is not able to scan a computer or to repair a hard drive. It is only able to fabricate hardware error reports. The fake warnings are meant to make people concerned and to make them buy the HDD Doctor program for fixing the issues. Avoid the trap! HDD Doctor is malicious and fraudulent. It is only meant to annoy you till you agree to pay for having the program onboard. HDDoctor gets on a PC via trojans and it prevents regular uninstall process. Do not waste your money for keeping malware on your PC.

Here are some examples of HDD Doctor pop-ups:

Confirmation
HDD doctor detected an error on your hard drive when trying to access a file
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
Perform data recovery now?

Confirmation
Your hard drive contains a lot of critical errors!
All your data including installed programs, documents, email, etc. are at risk of irreversible corrupt.
The trial version does not have low-level access module needed to fix the errors found.
It is strongly recommended to activate the full version software with necessary modules. Activate full version now?

Disk Error
Can not find file: C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
File may be deleted or corrupt.
It is strongly recommended to check the disk for errors.

Serious system error
The system will reboot in 37 seconds
Windows can not continue operating due to fatal system error.
Windows was forced to restart.
All unsaved data will be lost.

Confirmation
The system disk contains a large number of critical errors.
Windows could not fix most of them.
You can install install trial version of the third party software “HDD doctor” to fix found bugs.
Install “HDD doctor” now?

HDD Doctor is a Rogue Antispyware software

How to manually remove HDD Doctor

To remove HDD Doctor spyware you must block HDD Doctor sites, stop and remove processes, unregister DLL files, search and delete all other HDD Doctor files and registry utility. Follow the HDD Doctor detection and removal instructions below.

The most typical software removal method is to remove HDD Doctor by using "Add or Remove Programs" service. However there may be hidden HDD Doctor files, running processes and registries in your computer, so HDD Doctor may recreate all other files after reboot.

HDD Doctor manual removal instructions

Stop and remove HDD Doctor processes:
hdddoctor.exe Read more how to kill HDD Doctor processes

Locate and delete HDD Doctor registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "WarnonBadCertRecving" = "0"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "WarnOnPostRedirect" = "0"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon "Shell" = "%UserProfile%\Application Data\hdddoctor.exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "WarnOnPost"="0"
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon /V "Shell" = "%UserProfile%\Application Data\hdddoctor.exe" Read more how to delete HDD Doctor registry entries
Download RegistryBooster 2010 to scan errors caused by HDD Doctor

Detect and delete other HDD Doctor files:
%UserProfile%\Application Data\hdddoctor.exe
%UserProfile%\Application Data\install_hdd
%UserProfile%\Desktop\HDD Doctor.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\HDD Doctor.lnk
c:\WINDOWS\Tasks\At1.job

We strongly recommend you to use spyware remover to track HDD Doctor and automaticaly remove HDD Doctor processes, registries and files as well as other spyware threats.

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