New Scareware Poses as HDD Defragmentation Tools

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New Scareware Poses as HDD Defragmentation Tools

Scareware creators have temporarily steered away from the fake antivirus theme they commonly use to put out a new line of rogue programs that pose as defragmentation utilities.

Some of the fake defrag tools observed so far had names like “Ultra Defragger”, “Smart Defragmenter”, “HDD Defragmenter”, “System Defragmenter”, “Disk Defragmenter”, “Quick Defragmenter”, “Check Disk” or “Scan Disk.” However, despite being named differently, all of them have the same interface.

After installation these clones proceed to perform a system scan and, like any scareware applications whose purpose is to scare users into buying a license, claim to identify multiple problems.

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