This threat has been renamed to Rogue:Win32/FakeScanti.

Sysinternals Antivirus is a variant of Win32/FakeScanti - a family of programs that claims to scan for malware and displays fake warnings of “malicious programs and viruses”. They then inform the user that they need to pay money to register the software in order to remove these non-existent threats.

Wireshark Antivirus is a variant of Win32/FakeScanti - a family of programs that claims to scan for malware and displays fake warnings of “malicious programs and viruses”. They then inform the user that they need to pay money to register the software in order to remove these non-existent threats.

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

Win32/FakeScanti is a rogue that claims to scan for malware and displays fake warnings of "malicious programs and viruses". It tells you that you need to pay to register this fake program and remove the non-existent threats. Win32/FakeScanti variants have been observed to use names like:

• AKM Antivirus Pro
• AV Guard Online
• BlueFlare Antivirus
• Guard Online
• Milestone Antivirus
• Open Cloud AV
• OpenCloud Antivirus
• Security Guard 2012
• Sysinternals Antivirus
• Windows Antivirus Pro
• Windows Police Pro
• XJR Antivirus
• Your PC Protector