Sophos

Troj/FakeVir-BR

Aliases
  • BDS/Hupigon.cxo
  • FraudTool.Win32.WinAntiVirus.m
  • Win32/Adware.Antivirus2008
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from August 2008 (4.32)
Protection available since 12 June 2008 18:47:26 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

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