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Mal/FakeAV-AL

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 3 July 2009 00:09:12 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products
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Action

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More Information

Mal/FakeAV-AL is an application for the Windows platform that exhibits malicious behavior.

Mal/FakeAV-AL dowloads and installs a fake Anti-Virus application that fraudulently reports a users system as infected and will not clean up these fraudulent reports until the users pays and registers the application.

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