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Microsoft Security Intelligence
Published Dec 04, 2008 | Updated Sep 15, 2017

Trojan:Win32/Killav.AF

Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus

Aliases: Win32/AVKill.B (CA) Troj/KillAV-Q (Sophos) Trojan.Win32.KillAV.q (Kaspersky) ProcKill-AF (McAfee) Trojan.Killav (Sunbelt Software) Trojan.Killav (Symantec) TROJ_KILLAV.P (Trend Micro)

Summary

Trojan:Win32/Killav.AF is a trojan that terminates a large number of security-related processes, including those for antivirus, monitoring, or debugging tools.
Manual removal is not recommended for this threat. To detect and remove this threat and other malicious software that may have been installed, run a full-system scan with an up-to-date antivirus product such as the Microsoft Safety Scanner (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=212742). For more information, see http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/vista.mspx.
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