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Troj/FakeAle-BF

Aliases
  • not-a-virus:FraudTool.Win32.AntiVirus2008.w
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from July 2008 (4.31)
Protection available since 13 May 2008 10:08:06 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/FakeAle-BF is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/FakeAle-BF includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

When first run Troj/FakeAle-BF copies itself to <Program Files>\Antivirus 2008\Antvrs.exe and creates the following files:

<User>\Start Menu\Antivirus\Antivirus 2008.lnk
<User>\Start Menu\Antivirus\Uninstall Antivirus.lnk

The following registry entry is created to run Antvrs.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Antivirus
<Program Files>\Antivirus 2008\Antvrs.exe

Registry entries are created under:

HKCU\Software\Antivirus
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Antivirus

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