jamesodriscoll
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Hi Guys,
Ok Im not sure if this in the right forum for this to go in but i hope so as i consider it malware.
I had an update warning from what i though was the Adobe Updater for Acrobat Reader etc. I normally have this off but i recently installed Dreamweaver and Adobe CS5 and forgot to turn it back off.
I selected OK to run and install the update but as soon as it had finished Windows Starting Flashing a Warning saying that "Windows cannot detect you Hard Disk Drive"
If appeard to be coming from the Windows 7 Security Alert but there was also another Program installed called "Smart Defragmenter" which i discovered on my desktop that had somehow been downloaded and installed on the PC.
It downloads itself in the temp folder under your username. The exe is not names smart defragmenter but instead a series of random numbers.
I found the quickest way to uninstall was to reboot into safe mode empty the temp data folder. I then did a quick system restore just to make sure
If there is a quicker way to remove please tell me would like to know.
Anyway hope this info is useful.
James
Ok Im not sure if this in the right forum for this to go in but i hope so as i consider it malware.
I had an update warning from what i though was the Adobe Updater for Acrobat Reader etc. I normally have this off but i recently installed Dreamweaver and Adobe CS5 and forgot to turn it back off.
I selected OK to run and install the update but as soon as it had finished Windows Starting Flashing a Warning saying that "Windows cannot detect you Hard Disk Drive"
If appeard to be coming from the Windows 7 Security Alert but there was also another Program installed called "Smart Defragmenter" which i discovered on my desktop that had somehow been downloaded and installed on the PC.
It downloads itself in the temp folder under your username. The exe is not names smart defragmenter but instead a series of random numbers.
I found the quickest way to uninstall was to reboot into safe mode empty the temp data folder. I then did a quick system restore just to make sure
If there is a quicker way to remove please tell me would like to know.
Anyway hope this info is useful.
James