‘System message – Write Fault Error’ notification is not worthy of your trust. This misleading and faulty message accompanies Smart HDD virus (it actually precedes its appearance on the attacked PC). By the way, this scary alert comes up several times without actual reason for such a multitude of similar popups’ appearance). The only purpose of such warning is to make users scared for the status of their PC. Smart HDD is a fake hard drive defragmenter that appears soon after ‘System message – Write Fault Error’ notice, it represents itself as some program that is intended for fixing all system errors, bugs, problems and troubles having to do with hard drive, system memory, registry, etc. But the only truth we know about this program is that it is not able to perform any single good deed for your machine. Instead, it ruins your customized system settings that have to do with location of your files, folders on the desktop, as well as icons, shortcuts and other important preferences of yours. The data is relocated to a specifically predestined folder known as ‘smtmp’. Don’t worry, your important information is not deleted but simply hidden. In the paragraph below we will explain to you how to restore the files back to their initial location.
Making the long story short, Smart HDD is a fake system optimizer, this is why all its notices must be ignored by you, including the one that says “System message – Write Fault Error”. Here is the complete quotation of its scary content:
System message – Write Fault Error
A Write command during the test has failed to complete. This may be due to a media or read/write error. The system generates an exception error when using a reference to an invalid system memory address.
The rogue gives you three options – to cancel, to try again or to continue. Still, clicking any of them eventually brings you to the point where you see the GUI of Smart HDD (the predecessor of System Check scam). Once this happens, please disregard whatever you see reported by this hoax and follow this removal guide to delete the rogue. Additionally, you will need to comply with these recommendations on restoration of your data that was initially hidden by this Trojan horse.
