It's fairly well known that different types of malware can "kill" security products in various ways. These kinds of malware are known as retroviruses. In order to step things up a notch, some risks are utilizing legitimate software uninstallers to trick users into uninstalling legitimate security products. A new variant of the Trojan.FakeAV threat has been using this technique to install a newly released clone of the CoreGuard Antivirus security risk, called "AnVi Antivirus". In this case, the Trojan is utilizing this social engineering technique to trick users into uninstalling many well-known security products, including solutions by Symantec, Microsoft, AVG, Spyware Doctor, and Zone Labs, before installing AnVi Antivirus.
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