PC World reports that a spate of scareware apps that trick users into buying useless hard disk repair tools appears to be part of a concerted campaign to push fake "defrag" software
ding to a GFI-Sunbelt Security blog, a new type of bogus disk software has suddenly become very common on the back of this, with a clutch of convincing examples appearing in recent weeks.Internet Hit by Wave of Fake PC 'defrag' Tools
Users encountering new examples HDDRepair, HDDRescue and HDDPlus should ignore them. They are bogus applications that claim to defragment a user's hard disk even though such a requirement is barely needed given that Windows does a lot of this work behind the scenes anyway.
