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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Characteristics |
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| Included in our products from | August 2008 (4.32) |
| Protection available since | 12 June 2008 18:47:26 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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Please follow the instructions for removing Trojans.
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Troj/FakeVir-BR claims to be an anti-virus scanner called "System Antivirus 2008".
Troj/FakeVir-BR scans the computer and reports clean files as being infected with malware.
The following registry entries are created to run Troj/FakeVir-BR on startup:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Antivirus
<pathname of the executable>
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Antivirus
<pathname of the executable>
The following registry entry is set:
HKCU\Software\SAV
545
<pathname of the executable>
Registry entries are created under:
HKCU\Software\SAV
HKCR\.key
