Trojan fakeav virus

These programs are designed to extort money from users in return for the purported detection and removal of threats, which are in fact non-existent. General speaking, this malware shows many repeating pop-ups in an effort to make the user worry about the security of their system and pay for fake AV software.

Additionally, Trojan-FakeAV programs prevent the computer from working properly, but do not fully inhibit the operating system in order to make the user believe that the threat is credible. Web vxCube. About Licensing. Reports Statistics. Sign in to Dr. VCI investigations. Virus library. Virus descriptions Vulnerability descriptions. Knowledge base. Technologies About the Dr. Web virus database Extended databases Dr. Web technologies. Terminology Dr. Web virus classification Types of viruses Malware Unwanted and potentially dangerous software Unwanted and potentially dangerous elements Glossary.

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Web virus database: Virus description added: I have not seen any more problems with the computer after the last fix 2 days ago take on wood Thank you for your help! Btw, here is the log from combofix, of course this has now been reverted by the restore point Also of note is that this time too the process "pev.

Andra raderingar. Sluttid: - datorn startades om. Sorry to hear you did a System Restore. That is not wise to do while cleaning as often malware removed from the system resides in a restore point.

As long as that particular restore point isn't used no way to tell easily it will not reinfect the system.. We have old restore points dropped at end of cleaning. Many are getting the "pev. The most common cause right now is a rootkit and many have this on the system. It can sometimes also be caused by an active security system. Please tell me how you want to proceed.

Note the space between the X and the U, it needs to be there. Okay, the restore point I used was the one created by ComboFix at the time I ran it. I did not know what kind of registry key it was that we deleted d-word, string etc otherwise I would just have created it manually but since I didn't know what type it was I felt it better to do a restore How can I troubleshoot the "pev. I tried googling it but not much info comes up, what kind of rootkit could cause it?

Well you see first hand that I do loos a thread occasionally! Sorry about that. If you have not uninstalled Combofix, try the scan again and see if it will run. I have also done searches on 'pev. It ran for you initially- were you logged on under the same account when you went to do the script? This Trojan employs registry shell spawning by adding certain registry entries.

This allows this malware to execute even when other applications are opened.