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SmartScan

Posted: January 12, 2011

SmartScan is a fake system optimizing tool which pretends to be a registry cleaner. SmartScan is related to Hard Drive Diagnostic, HDD Scan, Win Defragmenter and Win HDD. SmartScan is a deceitful and pretends to fix or clean a computer's registry. SmartScan uses deceptive security alerts and bogus registry scans as a method to get computer users to purchase the full version of the rogue registry cleaner in use. Remove SmartScan before the hackers behind this blatant scam try to pilfer your money.

File System Modifications

  • The following files were created in the system:
    # File Name
    1 %ProgramFiles%\smartscan
    2 %StartMenu%\smartscan

Registry Modifications

  • The following newly produced Registry Values are:
    HKEY..\..\..\..{Subkeys}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\smartscanHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}smartscan
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