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Microsoft Security Intelligence
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Updated on Jun 24, 2008

Windows Defender detects and removes this threat.

VirTool:Win32/Obfuscator.ABO are a group of programs that hide their purpose to avoid analysis and detection by your security software.  To do this they use a combination of encryption, compression, anti-debugging and anti-emulation techniques.

These techniques are used by a number of different kinds of malware. The malware that lies "underneath" can have almost any purpose.

Alert level: severe