FakeAlert.AQF
Posted: October 8, 2009
Threat Metric
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Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Threat Level: | 6/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 65 |
First Seen: | July 24, 2009 |
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OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
FakeAlert.AQF is a dangerous Trojan horse that is known to install rogue anti-spyware onto the infected system. Usually the process of FakeAlert.AQF installing a rogue application onto the infected computer is done without permission or notification to the computer user. FakeAlert.AQF may display misleading warning messages and lead to further infection from unknown malware. FakeAlert.AQF is recommended to be removed with a reputable spyware detection tool.
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Technical Details
File System Modifications
Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.
The following files were created in the system:windep.exe
File name: windep.exeSize: 128 KB (128000 bytes)
MD5: 41bb99482ac5cd3f370f4f837a194b77
Detection count: 15
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
%WINDIR%\system32\svchost.exe:ext.exe
File name: svchost.exe:ext.exeSize: 39.93 KB (39936 bytes)
MD5: 695fcf4838f3c77a70f19511d0a94c1c
Detection count: 14
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %WINDIR%\system32
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: October 8, 2010
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