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We've all heard about fake antivirus programs, also known as scareware. These programs falsely claim that your computer is infected with malware and prompt you to buy a product that will do nothing for you, except put your credit card number into the hands of criminals.Well now there are fake disk defraggers that masquerade as applications that fix disk errors on a computer.

In a post today the GFI Labs (formerly Sunbelt Software) blog Dubbed the programs FakeAV-Defrag rogues and said they had names like HDDDiagnostic, HDDRepair, HDDRescue, and HDDPlus.

Cnet has the details HERE!



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I'm using Diskeeper Lite (recommended by Alan) here & it's working fine.
Very fast defragger.
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