Mal/FakeAle-A

Category: Viruses and Spyware
Type: Malicious behavior
Prevalence: Small Number of Reports

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Mal/FakeAle-A is a family of malware which may display spurious warnings about the computer being infected with other malware.

Members of Mal/FakeAle-A typically copy themselves to the root of drive C: and create the following registry entry to run themselves on restart:

SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Sys<number>.exe
C:\Sys<number>.exe

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