This is the scary notification that is peculiar to many rogues that share the same interface (GUI). In fact, there are certain applications that belong to FakeVimes virus family. They generally appear to last within a couple of days only, and they most commonly appear once every day. Theser are the rogues that have the only goal so far – to convince users to buy their fake licensed or so-called registered version as a supposed remedy for removal of fake threats detected during the fake scans arranged periodically.

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The warning about detection of theft of your identity is often a fake notification spread by many viruses in the world today. In particular, there are very many rogue security applications that tend to distribute notifications with similar content. For example, over the past period of time there have been many rogues classified as FakeVimes family. Their samples appear once every day and don’t really last too long (for one day only). These rogues change their name every day, and, frankly speaking, their names often sound quite silly – just as the makers of them aren’t smart enough to invent really smart programs. So, they prefer to develop malwares which are really dangerous for the security of your PC. Often these rogue security programs enter infected machines in various countries of the world. Immediately they start brainwashing users with many kinds of fake security notifications, like this one about identity theft attempt being detected. What you should do in such cases is to ignore these fake warnings you see reported by the hoaxes. Instead, scan your PC with reliable and decent antivirus program to clean your system from these threats. Again, disregard the entire message you see at the screenshot.

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Today there are many bogus anti-virus applications that altogether belong to the FakeVimes rogue family. There are very many of them. In fact, they appear to live for within only about one day or so. They all imitate the traits of some legitimate security programs, but this is simply the illusion they try to create in your mind. The truth is that any facts stated by such programs are untrue. Here is the example of the message you might receive when the system is contaminated with FakeVimes rogues:

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Data Error Reading Drive C:\ can be a warning about some serious trouble with your PC’s inner part, but in many cases this is nothing but the fake notice sent by virus. In fact, nowadays there are several rogue hard drive defragmenters that show various misleading and untrue notifications about unreal troubles with your PC. Among such malicious programs we may name Smart HDD and Data Recovery (latest known examples). Apart from the fake notice about “Data Error Reading Drive C:\” there are many other similar warnings. All of them tell of problems with your system, memory and hard drive, but nothing reported should be considered as a real trouble.

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This fake message (popup) comes up on PCs infected with fake hard drive defragmenters, such as Smart HDD and Data Recovery that appeared yesterday with its new interface. These two rogues aim to scare users with the bunch of untrue information about their computer, and surely it is scary indeed for people who don’t even realize they’re dealing with a hoax. The program doesn’t ask for one’s permission to enter the machine. It comes without invitation, moreover, it immediately tunes up the PC to be suitable for implementation of its malicious plots. For example, it blocks running of Task Manager (to prevent your attempt to terminate it). Additionally, the malware modifies your PC in order to be started automatically together with every system startup (OS launching). The next step is when the hoax finally unveils the completeness of its evil intentions.

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