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Trojan.FakeAlert.PP

VERY LOW

aprox 1 kb

(Adware.XPAntivirus)

You receive an offer on a website to scan your computer : "XP antivirus will scan your system for threats now."
It ask you to run an application that is supposedly clean : "Please select "RUN" or "OPEN" when prompted to start the installation. This file has been digitally signed and independently certified as 100% free of viruses, adware and spyware."
Appearance of messages that sustain the computer is infected : "ATTENTION! If your computer is infected, you could suffer data loss, erratic PC behaviour, PC freezes and creahes" and urge you to use XP Antivirus.

Please let BitDefender disinfect your files.

Daniel Chipiristeanu, virus researcher

This malware warns you about fake infections in your computer and requests a scan with the rogue antivirus "XP Antivirus". You can see the description to that unwanted program here : http://www.bitdefender.com/VIRUS-1000255-en--Adware.XPantivirus.A.html.
Then it downloads an installer from the product's website ( http://xpantivirus.com )
It installs the fake antivirus product in your system with the following path : " %program files% \ XPAntivirus\xpa.exe "