diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5e7272d2c..7761d689a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1078,8 +1078,6 @@
                 <totalBranchRate>89</totalBranchRate>
                 <totalLineRate>95</totalLineRate>
                 <regexes>
-                  <regex><pattern>.*.Checker</pattern><branchRate>100</branchRate><lineRate>97</lineRate></regex>
-
                   <regex><pattern>.*.checks.AbstractOptionCheck</pattern><branchRate>100</branchRate><lineRate>80</lineRate></regex>
                   <regex><pattern>.*.checks.AbstractTypeAwareCheck</pattern><branchRate>87</branchRate><lineRate>84</lineRate></regex>
                   <regex><pattern>.*.checks.AbstractTypeAwareCheck\$.*</pattern><branchRate>50</branchRate><lineRate>80</lineRate></regex>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/Checker.java b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/Checker.java
index d56761b8f..c8f04fb30 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/Checker.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/Checker.java
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle;
 
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
@@ -262,12 +261,6 @@ public class Checker extends AutomaticBean implements MessageDispatcher {
                     fileMessages.addAll(fsc.process(f, theText));
                 }
             }
-            catch (final FileNotFoundException fnfe) {
-                LOG.debug("FileNotFoundException occured.", fnfe);
-                fileMessages.add(new LocalizedMessage(0,
-                        Definitions.CHECKSTYLE_BUNDLE, "general.fileNotFound", null,
-                        null, this.getClass(), null));
-            }
             catch (final IOException ioe) {
                 LOG.debug("IOException occured.", ioe);
                 fileMessages.add(new LocalizedMessage(0,
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/whitespace/FileTabCharacterCheckTest.java b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/whitespace/FileTabCharacterCheckTest.java
index 97e584e51..71d4f118a 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/whitespace/FileTabCharacterCheckTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/whitespace/FileTabCharacterCheckTest.java
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ public class FileTabCharacterCheckTest
         final DefaultConfiguration checkConfig = createConfig(false);
         final String path = getPath("Claira");
         final String[] expected = {
-            "0: File not found!",
+            "0: Got an exception - " + path + " (No such file or directory)",
         };
         final File[] files = {
             new File(path),