As per the GFI Researchers, a bogus AV named FakeRean has been identified propagating itself on the popular websites through users' personal accounts or profiles.
The researchers have examined thoroughly into the techniques of propagation of the FakeRean family of bogus anti-virus and it has discovered some really interesting facts.
According to the GFI Labs blog - similar to all rogue anti-virus families, it presents false scanning outcomes to users to scam them into paying cash to register the software and repair their machines allegedly. Besides, this family modifies the infected machine's registry quite expansively and inserts several component and shortcut files, apart from other things. The key characteristic that sets FakeRean apart from the general rogues is its ability to compromise a file association for executable files, which enables it to reappear each time, when an application is run.
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