Saturday 9 January 2010

How to remove Trojan.FakeAlert

Trojan.FakeAlert is a Trojan virus from the Trojan.FakeAV family. Trojans from this family pretend to be legitimate anti-spyware/virus applications. In short, Trojan.FakeAV family has many variants but, but the most active is probably the Trojan.FakeAlert. Usually, this virus hijacks the desktop background and displays fake warnings about serious computer infections. It also may hijack Internet Explorer and change some settings of Windows OS.Trojan.FakeAlert is usually installed in conjunction with a rogue anti-spyware application. This trojan can be easily removed with almost any better known anti-virus or anti-spyware application. You may choose an anti-malware application listed on the left side of this page.

Trojan.FakeAlert imitations of the legitimate software (taken from ca.com):


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