FraudTool.Win32.XPAntivirus.a

Detection added: 28.12.2007 11:22:23

Behavior: Fraud (security) software
Rogue (Fake) Anti-Virus (like WinAntivirus2008 and others). It will give you fake security alerts, then urge you to buy the "upgraded" version to resolve them. It will even mess your computer up in several ways, so that you believe its fake alerts!

Behavior: Computer Virus
Computer virus is an application that replicates copies of itself and further spreads itself to other machines. Viruses do not have to be created by the experts, in fact most viruses can be (and were) written by average programmers.

A virus capable to modify other files by infecting, prepending, or overwriting them them with its own body.


Platform: This malware is a Windows PE EXE file.
Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 (x86)



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