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TrojanDownloader:Win32/Renos.gen!AK
Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus
Aliases: Win-Trojan/Xema.variant (AhnLab) Trojan.Downloader.JKDC (BitDefender) Win32/FakeAv.AB (CA) FakeAlert-AL.gen (McAfee) Awola (Symantec)
Summary
TrojanDownloader:Win32/Renos.gen!AK is a trojan that displays fake infection messages and can download and execute arbitrary files.
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.