Trojan.FakePowav

Trojan.FakePowav is related to Spyware. Your computer\'s security and privacy may be at risk.

Trojan.FakePowav is further classified by many experts as the following:
* Worm
* Cloaked Malware

The following are symptoms associated with this type of malicious application:

* Allows parasites associated with the file to operate invisibly in the background. * May record your credit cards, bank passwords and other personal information. * Parasites operate on your PC while malicious file is present on the system.
Trojan.FakePowav has been seen to perform the following behavior:

* Adds a Registry Key (RUN) to auto start Programs on system start up
* Reads your outlook address book
* This process creates other processes on disk
* This Process is a file infector which modifies program files to include a copy of the infection
* Looks at the contents of the autoexec.bat file
* Includes file creation code which could be used to test for interception by security products
* Opens browser pop ups
* Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
* Created as a process on disk
* Executed as a Process
* Added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up
* Terminated as a Process
* Deleted as a process from disk

We recommend running a scan of the infected computer in order to detect any additional spyware threats. One should make use of a legitimate antispyware tool, to ensure this PC threat, Trojan.FakePowav, is totally eradicated from the infected system.