Emsisoft Malware-Info

Name: Adware.Win32.AlphaAntivirus

Risklevel: High Risk

Description:

Alpha Antivirus is a rogue scanner program. It show fake security center, show misleading scan results, and fake security alerts. The author of Alpha Antivirus is still the same as that made Cyber Security (Adware.Win32.CyberSecurity), so it has same user interface, same characteristics, same protection, just different name. To more convince users, Alpha Antivirus will also create numerous files on your computer that will be detected as malware when the program scans your computer, but will not allow you to remove them until you purchase it. And also, Alpha Antivirus will install a new BHO (Browser Helper Objects) on victim machine.

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More details about this danger:

Characteristics:

  • Install a new Browser Helper Objects
  • Show fake security center.
  • Show fake warning messages.
  • Shows misleading scan results.

Installation: Installed through EXE

Process: alpha.exe

Screenshots:

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Used folders:

  • C:\Program Files\AlphaAV\
  • C:\Program Files\Common Files\AlphaAVUninstall\
  • C:\Windows\System32\
  • C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\AlphaAV\
  • C:\Documents and Settings\[USER]\Desktop\

Used files:

  • C:\Program Files\AlphaAV\alpha.exe
    [1226240 Bytes] EXE File
  • C:\Program Files\Common Files\AlphaAVUninstall\Uninstall.lnk
    [702 Bytes] LNK File
  • C:\Windows\System32\IEaddonscontrol.dll
    [359936 Bytes] DLL File
  • C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\AlphaAV\Alpha Antivirus.lnk
    [700 Bytes] LNK File
  • C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\AlphaAV\Computer Scan.lnk
    [1560 Bytes] LNK File
  • C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\AlphaAV\Help.lnk
    [1512 Bytes] LNK File
  • C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\AlphaAV\Registration.lnk
    [1556 Bytes] LNK File
  • C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\AlphaAV\Security Center.lnk
    [708 Bytes] LNK File
  • C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\AlphaAV\Settings.lnk
    [1548 Bytes] LNK File
  • C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\AlphaAV\Update.lnk
    [1544 Bytes] LNK File
  • C:\Documents and Settings\[USER]\Desktop\Alpha Antivirus.lnk
    [694 Bytes] LNK File

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