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Low |Detected with Windows Defender Antivirus
Aliases: No associated aliases
Windows Defender Antivirus detects and removes this threat. See the Win32/FakeRean description for more information.
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Windows Defender detects and removes this threat. See the Win32/FakeRean description for more information.
Symptoms vary among different subfamilies and variants of Win32/FakeRean; below are some common variants we see in the wild:
See the relevant encyclopedia entry for a list of specific infection symptoms.
