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Updated on Dec 09, 2014

Windows Defender detects and removes this threat.

This family of rogue security programs pretend to scan your PC for malware, and often report lots of infections. The program will say you have to pay for it before it can fully clean your PC.

However, the program hasn't really detected any malware at all and isn't really an antivirus or antimalware scanner. It just looks like one so you'll send money to the people who made the program. Some of these programs use product names or logos that unlawfully impersonate Microsoft products.

Even if you do pay to "unlock" the app, it won't do anything because your PC isn't actually infected with all that malware it "found".

Different brands of the rogues may modify various settings on your computer, end or close programs or system services, or block access to websites.

It might have been installed on your PC by a Rogue:VBS/FakePAV variant.

Find out ways that malware can get on your PC.  

Alert level: severe
Updated on Oct 27, 2015

Windows Defender Antivirus detects and removes this threat. See the Win32/FakePAV description for more information.

Alert level: severe
Updated on Aug 21, 2023
Alert level: severe
Updated on Jan 04, 2011
Alert level: severe
Updated on Apr 13, 2011
Alert level: severe
Updated on Mar 23, 2012
Alert level: severe
Updated on Nov 18, 2018
Alert level: severe
Updated on Oct 13, 2021
Alert level: severe
Updated on Feb 26, 2015
Alert level: severe
Updated on Nov 01, 2023
Alert level: severe
Updated on Apr 17, 2012
Alert level: severe
Updated on May 17, 2015
Alert level: severe
Updated on Feb 25, 2014
Alert level: severe
Updated on Jan 31, 2014
Alert level: severe
Updated on Oct 27, 2015

Windows Defender detects and removes this threat.

This threat is a file that is used to download rogue security software programs that we detect as Win32/FakePav.

See the Win32/FakePAV description for more information.

Find out ways that malware can get on your PC.

Alert level: severe
Updated on Dec 08, 2014

Windows Defender Antivirus detects and removes this threat. See the Win32/FakePAV description for more information.

Alert level: severe
Updated on Apr 07, 2014
Alert level: severe
Updated on May 24, 2011
Alert level: severe
Updated on Apr 07, 2014
Alert level: severe
Updated on Oct 11, 2010
Alert level: severe