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Published May 27, 2008 | Updated Sep 15, 2017

Trojan:Win32/FakeAnts

Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus

Aliases: Trojan.FakeAlert.RL (BitDefender) Win32/Adware.Antivirus2008 (ESET) not-a-virus:Downloader.Win32.FraudLoad.ar (Kaspersky) WinFixer (McAfee) W32/DLoader.HDZU (Norman) Troj/Dwnldr-HDG (Sophos) ADW_FAKEAV.O (Trend Micro) Program:Win32/VistaAntivirus2008.A (other) MS Antivirus (CA)

Summary

Trojan:Win32/FakeAnts is a rogue security program that displays misleading alerts regarding computer problems or falsely reports detections of malicious files on the affected machine in order to convince users to purchase rogue security software. It may be installed by Trojan:Win32/Renos.D, or manually installed by a computer user.
Manual removal is not recommended for this threat. Use Microsoft Windows Defender, Microsoft Security Essentials, the Microsoft Safety Scanner, or another up-to-date scanning and removal tool to detect and remove this threat and other unwanted software from your computer. For more information on Microsoft security products, see http://www.microsoft.com/protect/products/computer/default.mspx.
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