Blog: Rogue Turning Retrovirus

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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