File Recovery virus. How to remove

File Recovery is a brand new malware program that pursues the goal of scaring users a lot. It does this by arranging many fake scans of your computer and reporting various disorders. In particular, you’re reported of many bogus problems with your PC having to do with memory, hard drives and other system malfunctions. Of course, such information is very scary especially when you don’t know about its true origin and fake character. This is the goal of malware developers that elaborated it – to make you think your system is in danger by producing (inventing) all kinds of unreal problems with your machine. When you hear about them from File Recovery application that looks exactly like the one you see at the screenshot – this is a trap that you must not step into. Otherwise you’re under a serious risk of losing your funds if you follow the malicious and misleading instructions of its developers.

The malware called File Recovery is nothing but the rogue system optimization tool from the same family as Data Recovery and Smart HDD malwares. They have been quite “popular” over the past few months, but it seems that starting from today they’re going to be replaced by this fresh rogue called File Recovery. Be careful with it! This scareware will amend your PC in such a manner that this rogue will be launched automatically each time you turn your computer on. Its fake scans and bogus virus reports are quite inevitable, by the way. The malware runs fake scans each time you turn your computer on. However, knowing now that File Recovery is a scam, please disregard the contents of all fake notifications, popups and alerts of this rogue.

Fake errors reported by File Recovery scam:

Hard drives diagnostic report
Your computer is in critical state. Hard disk error detected.
As a result it can lead to hard disk failure and potential loss of data.
It is highly recommended to repair all found errors to prevent loss of files, applications and documents stored on your computer.

Hard drive boot sector reading error
During I/O system initialization, the boot device driver might have failed to initialize the boot device. File system initialization might have failed because it did not recognize the data on the boot device.

System blocks were not found
This has most likely occurred because of hard disk failure.
This may also lead to a potential loss of data.

Error 0×00000024 – NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM
The Stop 0×24 message indicates that a problems occurred within Ntfs.sys, the driver file that allows the system to read and write to NTFS file system drives. It is most often related to hard drive errors.

Error 0×00000078 – INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
The Stop 0×78 message indicates that Windows has lost access to the system partition or boot volume during the startup process. During I/O system initialization, the boot device driver might have failed to initialize the boot device (typically a hard disk). Repartitioning the system partition or installing a new SATA/RAID adapter or disk controller might also induce this error.

The DRM attribute value is too small before disk scan
Drive Reliability Monitor (a system or monitoring the reliability of disc drive functioning). The malfunction counter built into the disk drive shows excessive number of malfunctions. The storage device needs to be replaced.

Error 0×00000050 – PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
The Stop 0×50 message indicates that requested data was not in memory. The system generates an exception error when using a reference to an invalid system memory address.

Error 0x0000002E – DATA_BUS_ERROR
The Stop 0x2E message is typically caused by failed or defective RAM (including motherboard, Level 2 cache, or video memory), incompatible or mismatched memory hardware, or when a device driver attempts to access an address in the 0x8xxxxxxx range that does not exist (does not map to a physical address).

This virus is called “File Recovery”, and there’s a trick in this very fact. The rogue intentionally hides all your files, folders, icons, desktop shortcuts and programs in the start menu. Such problems will occur if you have this Trojan horse on your machine. However, keep in mind that they were all created by this malware. The hoax first makes problems and then asks you to buy its license for fixing these troubles. It should be mentioned that the activation code of File Recovery may indeed restore some data that was hidden, but remember that all such troubles were caused exactly by this scam! Buying this hoax is a serious mistake on your part and a waste of your funds. There are ways how you may restore your data that was hidden absolutely for free, at no cost at all. But, first of all, you must get rid of this malicious application completely using the reputable security application. We recommend you to do it with the help of GridinSoft Trojan Killer as described in the video guide you see below. Be careful when following these malware removal instructions. Read them in all details and follow them completely. Finally, below you may find the useful information on restoration of your data for free with the help of GridinSoft Unhider and GridinSoft Restore – two absolutely free applications developed by GridinSoft LLC. Good luck to you!