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Troj/FakeAV-AHD

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 5 November 2009 20:39:15 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/FakeAV-AHD is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When first run Troj/FakeAV-AHD copies itself to <System>\winupdate.exe and creates the following files:

<System>\41.exe
<System>\avr09.exe
<System>\winhelper.dll

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
winupdate.exe
<System>\winupdate.exe

Registry entries are created under:

HKCU\Software

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