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FakeAlert
A Trojan application designed to produce fake anti-virus or scan alerts intended to trick the user into believing the system is infected with malware. FakeAlert applications (sometimes referred to as "FakeAV" or "Fake Anti-Virus") may offer to clean the system for a registration fee but usually only take the user's credit card information without making any changes or fixing the damages they caused.
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- Industry/Domain: Internet
- Category: Internet security
- Company: McAfee
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