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3 entries found.
Updated on Sep 14, 2010
Alert level: severe
Updated on Sep 15, 2010

Windows Defender Antivirus detects and removes this threat. 

This threat claims to scan your PC for malware and then shows you fake warnings. They try to convince you to pay to register the software to remove the non-existent threats.

See the Win32/FakeCog description for more information.

Find out ways that malware can get on your PC.

Alert level: severe
Updated on Sep 06, 2010

Windows Defender Antivirus detects and removes this threat. 

This threat claims to scan your PC for malware and then shows you fake warnings. They try to convince you to pay to register the software to remove the non-existent threats.

See the Win32/FakeCog description for more information.

Alert level: low
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