Trojan.Fraud.A
Posted: May 22, 2012
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
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: | 9/10 |
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| Infected PCs: | 54 |
| First Seen: | May 22, 2012 |
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| Last Seen: | June 12, 2022 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
While economic troubles throughout the world have led to many people pinching pennies (and equivalent currencies), Trojan.Fraud.A is a scamware program that's designed to take advantage of increasingly desperate fiscal straits. By waving offers of helping you make vast amounts of money from home if you're willing to download its promoted 'How To Earn Money' program, Trojan.Fraud.A makes it tempting to give the product a try for a mere forty to fifty dollars. However, Trojan.Fraud.A's promoted program is just a second affiliate product that offers strategies on illegal mass-e-mailing activities, and Trojan.Fraud.A itself uses 'online billboard' tactics to bypass security measures and display its fraudulent content. As a valueless program that's designed to promote an equally-worthless piece of software, Trojan.Fraud.A should be deleted as soon as you see shortcuts or other symptoms of Trojan.Fraud.A's attacks on your PC. To this end, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers encourage you to use anti-malware software, which can certainly be considered a better use of your money than Trojan.Fraud.A's fake 'How To Earn Money' product.
Trojan.Fraud.A, the Clever Adware for the Worst of the Web
Trojan.Fraud.A exists only as a form of adware to promote other types of fraudulent and malicious programs, particularly the 'How To Earn Money' program, which claims to offer a viable work-at-home income of over twenty thousand dollars monthly. Of course, this offer is utterly fake, as the vaunted 'How To Earn Money' doesn't have anything resembling legitimate business advice or career opportunities to assist your bank account, and SpywareRemove.com malware researchers strongly recommend that you keep your money instead of throwing it down the virtual hole that is Trojan.Fraud.A's favorite software.
The only obvious symptom of a Trojan.Fraud.A infection is the appearance of unwanted desktop shortcuts. Once clicked, these shortcuts cause Trojan.Fraud.A to launch itself and display promotional content for the aforementioned get-rich-quick-scheme. As a side note, SpywareRemove.com malware experts also find it worth mentioning that Trojan.Fraud.A doesn't do this by opening a normal browser window with an included URL – instead, Trojan.Fraud.A loads the content with an omitted URL, which prevents easy identification of the website and bypasses security features (such as blacklists by PC security companies). The inherent lack of safety in viewing Trojan.Fraud.A's 'billboard' makes any prolonged interaction with Trojan.Fraud.A's website content highly inadvisable.
How to Tell This Huckster to Take a Hike
Since Trojan.Fraud.A was identified by most PC security companies in early to mid-May 2012, you should be careful to update your anti-malware software if it's using a threat database that's significantly older than the above date. Inadequately-updated anti-malware scanners may be unable to detect Trojan.Fraud.A, which is likely to resist the usual removal methods (via Control Panel, etc) that would typically function on benign applications.
However, other than its obviously too-good-to-be-true money-making scam, Trojan.Fraud.A hasn't been noted to cause any other types of attacks against your PC. As long as you avoid contact with malicious sites that are promoted by Trojan.Fraud.A, SpywareRemove.com malware analysts note that your chances of suffering long term damage to your OS should be nil.
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