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Trojan:Win32/Renos.gen!AG
Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus
Aliases: Hoax.Win32.Renos.dv (Kaspersky) Downloader-AFH (McAfee) SpyShredder (Symantec)
Summary
Trojan:Win32/Renos.gen!AG is a trojan that downloads unwanted software such as SpyShredder, a rogue security program that displays misleading alerts regarding computer problems or falsely reports detections of malicious files on the affected machine.
Trojan:Win32/Renos.gen!AG will attempt to download and install additional malicious and other unwanted software, thus manual removal is not recommended for this threat. Use Microsoft Security Essentials 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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